Telecoms operator Helios and private equity fund Rakiza have jointly closed on a $495 million deal to acquire stakes in Omantel’s passive tower assets in Oman

Vodafone Group has launched a voluntary takeover offer for Vantage Towers via Oak Holdings, open to all minority shareholders of European telecoms business Vantage Towers

Asterion Industrial Partners has been given the green light by Italy’s competition authority – Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato – for its acquisition of a 78.4% stake in Italian cloud and data centre company Irideos from Fondi italiani per le infrastrutture

Patria Investments, a global alternative asset manager, is selling its stake in Brazilian data centre provider ODATA to US firm Aligned Data Centers

US telco Bluebird Network has signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire the middle-mile fibre network assets from Missouri Telecom Inc

CapitaLand India Trust Management – trustee-manager of CapitaLand India Trust – has signed an MoU with the Telangana Government to develop a data centre at CLINT’s International Tech Park Hyderabad, at Madhapur

A London-based infrastructure veteran has been hired to raise capital across Europe for a major North American alternative asset manager

Freshwave appointed Nick Wiggin as partnerships lead to strengthen the firm’s public sector team in the UK to drive engagement on telecoms developments

The deadline for submissions to IJGlobal Awards 2022 – the biggest celebration of greenfield infrastructure and energy achievements in the international industry calendar – has been pushed back to the end of this week

Tiger Infrastructure Philippines has signed a $40 million loan with the Asian Development Bank to develop telecoms towers in the underserved regions of the archipelago

Gaelle Allet – senior product specialist for private markets at Allianz Global Investors – was chosen by the independent panel of judges as one of the two recipients of the Rising Star trophy at IJInvestor Awards 2022

Daniel Allmomen – vice president for power, energy and infrastructure at Cantor Fitzgerald – was chosen by the independent panel of judges as one of the two recipients of the Rising Star trophy at IJInvestor Awards 2022

BlackRock Real Assets’ investment into Centric Infrastructure Group in the US wins Americas Acquisition of the Year in the Utilities category at the IJInvestor Awards 2022

The Morrison & Co-led acquisition a 49% stake in Telstra Towers – the largest mobile telco infrastructure business in Australia – wins the APAC Digital Infrastructure Deal of the Year at the IJInvestor Awards 2022

KKR’s acquisition of a 60% stake in Telefónica’s fibre-to-the-home infrastructure business in Colombia and a 60% stake of its fibre optic network in Chile win the Americas Digital Infrastructure Acquisition of the Year in the IJInvestor Awards 2022