Latham & Watkins hires Frankfurt M&A partner

Latham & Watkins has hired Alexander Stefan Rieger as a partner in the M&A team and private equity practice in Frankfurt

NBOs received for TIM’s Sparkle

TIM Group has confirmed that it has received 2 non-binding offers for Sparkle following the start of a competitive bidding process

Houlihan Lokey strengths Benelux office

Los Angeles-based investment bank Houlihan Lokey has added a new managing director to its corporate finance unit to advise clients in the Benelux region

EAIF, Proparco to lend on Raxio’s African data centres

The EAIF and Proparco are set to lend $143 million to pan-African data centre developer Raxio Group for its 11MW Tier III expansion into 7 states

GSIS invests $300m in GIP fund

Philippines' state pension fund Government Service Insurance System will invest $300 million in the Global Infrastructure Partners' Emerging Markets Fund

NBI rolls out across County Louth

National Broadband Ireland, is set to roll-out its high-speed fibre network broadband connection to around 1,600 premises – businesses and farms – across Drogheda

StratCap acquires digital infra assets valued over $35m

Investment management firm StratCap has completed the acquisition of more than $35 million of data centres and cell towers

Infranity to invest in European data centre portfolio

Infranity is poised to invest €325 million in EdgeConneX’s sustainability-linked financing

Kraft departs BBVA after 15 years

Rainer Kraft has left BBVA, after serving 15 years at the firm, most recently as a managing director and head of loan syndicate, sales, and trading in Americas

Flatiron-led JV bags US broadband contract

Flatiron-led JV – of Flatiron and LTS Managed Technical Services – has secured the preconstruction services contract from the California Department of Transportation to install middle-mile broadband infrastructure for communities in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties

Bayfront returns for another bond sale

Bayfront Infrastructure Management will kick-off a fixed income investor meeting from tomorrow across Asia and Europe ahead of a US dollars-denominated benchmark-sized Regulation S senior notes offering

GlasfaserPlus roll-out update, Germany

GlasfaserPlus – which is owned by Deutsche Telekom and IFM Investors – has confirmed its plans for coming year to build fibre-optic connections across Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

EDRAM’s BRIDGE V leads to BRIDGE VI

Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has announced close on the fifth iteration of its infrastructure debt vintage at €2.5 billion while simultaneously launching the next one