Brookfield hires infra secondaries head

Brookfield Asset Management has hired a senior vice president in London to head the company’s new infrastructure secondaries strategy

Lathams adds projects partner in London

Latham & Watkins has today announced the appointment of Tom Bartlett as a partner in the firm’s project development and finance practice

German fibre business raises project debt

German fibre developer Deutsche Giga Access GmbH has reached financial close on a debt financing

BIS and HKMA testing tokenised green bonds

Results of the tests and prototypes to tokenise green bonds will be published in 4Q 2021

Equitix CEO to retire

Equitix chief executive Geoff Jackson is set to retire from his full-time role with the company next March

Equinix to expand Irish data centres

Equinix has lodged a planning application with South Dublin County Council to build 2 data centres adjacent to its existing facilities in Clondalkin, near Dublin

EBRD names new Lebanon head

The EBRD has made Khalil Dinguizli its new head of operations in Lebanon, effective 1 September

Arqiva undergoes VDD ahead of sale

Vendor due diligence has been launched by a Big4 firm on Arqiva, the British broadcasting and data, network, and communications services company

UK digital infra deal – out to lenders

Aberdeen Standard Investments – now operating as abrdn – is talking to lenders about a £100 million loan to build out UK operations in the digital infrastructure space

CityFibre’s Read to join Fastned

Head of policy and public affairs at UK digital infrastructure company CityFibre Victoria Read has today left the firm to join Amsterdam headquartered EV charging stations owner and operator Fastned

Macquarie drops out of Oz telecom deal

Macquarie has dropped out of the bidding war for Singtel’s Australian mobile telecom tower operator Optus – leaving 4 contenders in the race

TCorp hires out of Rubicon

Energy and Infrastructure specialist Alexandre du Pasquier has this month joined the sovereign wealth fund of NSW TCorp as a senior manager

Princeton to build data centre in Indonesia

Singapore-based Princeton Digital Group today announced its plans to develop a 22MW data center worth $150 million in Jarkarta, Indonesia

Hulks takes key role at RMB

RMB – a division of FirstRand Bank – has appointed Stuart Hulks to head its insurance and export credit agency team, effective 9 November and operating out of London

Fong joins EdgeConneX as Apac MD

US-based data centre company EdgeConneX appointed Kelvin Fong as Apac managing director