Swiss Life Asset Managers has launched the second fund in its value-add strategy, a part of its growing Infrastructure Equity platform

Real estate and investment advisory firm Arch Street Capital Advisors will enter the infrastructure sector in the US with an up to $3 billion mandate

Burges Salmon has appointed AJ Venter as partner in its corporate and M&A team based in Edinburgh

The board of directors of Patrizia, the global real assets manager, have named Asoka Wöhrmann as CEO designate and Slava Shafir as chief operating officer

Mesa County in Colorado has issued an RFP seeking service provider partners for a broadband initiative via a P3

Andreas Moon – lauded as “rainmaker” and the “money man” at I Squared – has this week quit his role as head of IR and fundraising at the Miami-based infrastructure fund

UK Government pension pool Wales Pension Partnership has appointed NASDAQ-listed alternative investment manager GCM Grosvenor as its partner for infrastructure investments

Sarika Patel, board member and head of the audit committee for LSE-listed Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund, will step down at the fund’s next annual general meeting in August

German digital infrastructure company Northern Fibre Holding today announced that it has secured a €240 million loan package from a consortium of 5 European lenders to facilitate growth in the German market

Slough Borough Council planning officers have unanimously approved plans for an upcoming data centre from US-based data centre provider Equinix

Vodafone Group has appointed Margherita della Valle as chief executive officer

Empyrion DC, a Seraya Partners portfolio company, has reached financial close for its new data center in Gangnam, South Korea, with financing provided by 3 Korean lenders

Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Corp’s debt financing is under way for a transpacific undersea cable system – which will connect the west coast of North America with Indonesia and Singapore

Microsoft has opened its first data centre region in Central and Eastern Europe located on several sites around the Warsaw, Poland, area

Vauban Infrastructure Partners has promoted 7 individuals to partner in a bid “to build & develop a diverse, multicultural, and talented team”