Cellnex, EIB ink on funding for European 5G
Spanish towerco Cellnex Telecom has signed a €315 million agreement with the European Investment Bank to finance the expansion of 5G infrastructure across Europe
BlackRock rocked by second senior exit, London
Word reaches IJGlobal once again of a senior exit from the London-based European infrastructure and energy team at BlackRock – less than a month after Jonathan Stevens served notice and was put on gardening leave
Lyntia to buy Spanish telecoms, cloud services platform
Spanish fibre provider Lyntia Networks has agreed to acquire telecoms and cloud services platform Evolutio Business Connectivity from the Evolutio Group
Adani seals inaugural dollar financing for data centres
AdaniConneX, a 50:50 JV between Adani Enterprises and EdgeConnex, has recently secured a $213 million facility to fund 2 data centres in India
Campbell Lutyens hires MD
Campbell Lutyens has hired Clay McCoy as a managing director in the firm’s New York office, strengthening its secondary advisory practice in North America
Ooredoo, Zain, TASC in telecom merger talks
Ooredoo Group, Zain and TASC Towers are in talks to combine their 30,000 tower assets in a cash and share deal
Prep works commence for Greenland subsea cable
Greenlandic telecommunications and postal company Tusass has launched a marine survey in preparation for an upcoming subsea cable
Keppel infra fund obtains loan facilities
The board of directors of Keppel Infrastructure Fund Management have secured term loan facilities amounting to $97.66 million
Finance Consult opens office in Casablanca
Finance Consult has opened a subsidiary in Casablanca to oversee the firm’s energy and infra advisory work across Africa
Basalt infra hires update, London
Dalmore Capital refugee Pedro Andrade Maia has cropped up at Basalt Infrastructure Partners in a vice president role, joining Andrew Marsden who joined as head of energy transition and sustainability earlier this month
Baker Botts hires Ashurst partner, Singapore
Baker Botts has made a partner-level lateral hire, bringing in Andrew Roche from a rival law firm to join its Singapore office
Gresham House fund pulls in £80m LPs
Gresham House has received an £80 million investment from Bedfordshire and Staffordshire pension funds to the second vintage of its UK-focused investment vehicle
Singapore to resume data center growth
Singapore has decided to award 80MW of data center capacity to 4 operators as part of a pilot Data Center-Call for Application exercise, following its data center growth policy reversal in 2022
ICG appoints CFO
Listed alternative asset manager Intermediate Capital Group has appointed David Bicarregui as chief financial officer and executive director
Finnish FTTH service reaches refi close
Finland’s largest fibre to the home company Valokuitunen has successfully closed a €400 million refinancing deal provided by a consortium of lenders