Pinsent Masons has promoted 5 of its lawyers to its partnership in Asia Pacific, among the 25 promotions the law firm announced today to enhance its sector-focus capabilities

Jan Bausch has retired from his role as co-head of the Amsterdam office of SMBC and is understood to be handing over control of the Netherlands team to Jeroen Kies

The Pennsylvannia Public School Employees’ Retirement System has allocated $218 million to the DIF Core-Plus Infrastructure Fund III

The European Commission (EC) has begun an in-depth investigation to assess the proposed creation of a JV between telecoms companies MásMóvil and Orange Spain

Ethiopia has become the 40th member-state of the AFC which envisions a $300 million energy and infra pipeline in the east African state

NeutraDC – a subsidiary of PT Telkom Data Ekosistem – and China Mobile International are collaborating to develop strategic solutions that meet the needs of Chinese companies in the Indonesian market

Singapore-based Parag Ranade has been promoted to managing director at Deutsche Bank, the banker announced on social media over the weekend

Building Digital UK has awarded an £8 million fibre gigahubs scheme to Nottinghamshire County Council to transform 350 public buildings into gigahubs

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Group units – Reliance Industries and Reliance Jio Infocomm – have upsized the foreign currency loans signed today to $5 billion-equivalent from an original $3 billion

Norwegian data centre company Green Mountain has today announced its partnership with Germany energy producer Kraftwerke Mainz-Wiesbaden for the construction of a data centre in Frankfurt, Germany

Long-established, New York-based Fitch Ratings infra specialist Saavan Gatfield has been promoted to managing director for business and relationship management for US infrastructure and project finance

James MacArthur has exited Weil to join the London energy, transport and infrastructure practice of Sidley Austin, with another partner to follow shortly

AMN has announced financial close on a $20 million debt facility agreed with impact investor BlueOrchard Sustainable Assets Fund

Macquarie Asset Management has made a preferred equity investment in Pavlov Media

Frankfurt-based data centre operator Maincubes has been given the go-ahead for its BER01 data centre in Berlin, Germany