Sharkawy & Sarhan promotes Abdelmoniem to partner

Sharkawy & Sarhan has promoted managing associate Esraa Abdelmoniem to partner in the firm’s mergers & acquisitions practice

Covage reaches FC on French fibre financing

Covage and NordLB have reached financial close on a €156 million debt financing package for a full fibre roll-out in France

PINT to invest in European towers business

Global infrastructure fund Pantheon Infrastructure has invested around €49.2m in telecoms operator GD Towers via a co-investment vehicle managed by affiliates of DigitalBridge Group

Guinea-Bissau to sell off 80% stakes in telecom companies

Guinea-Bissau has announced that stakes of up to 80% in state-owned GuinéTelecom and GuinéTel will be offered to the market

Tivit creates data centre business

Brazilian-based tech company Tivit is splitting off its data centre business into a company called Takoda

Eltel, Viken Fiber collab for Norwegian wireless

Telecoms business Eltel and Norway's largest fibre company Viken Fiber have signed a 3-year frame agreement to roll-out fixed wireless access in Norway

OP&F increases infra allocation

The Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund said it will allocate up to $350 million to infrastructure investments in 2023

Bluebird completes Missouri Telecom fibre asset acquisition

US telco Bluebird Network has completed the previously announced acquisition of middle-mile fibre network assets from Missouri Telecom

Flex called on CityFibre – back to market

The underwriters on the £4.9 billion CityFibre debt package have invoked the flex clause, repricing the deal after a failed syndication last year

Amazon submits plans for Ireland data centres

Universal Developers, on behalf of Amazon, has submitted plans for 3 data centres at its campus in Dublin

Final close for third fund vintage draws near

Final close is expected on the third vintage of an EU-focused fund in the coming months, according to a senior source

Nxtra to invest $296.8m in Hyderabad telecom

Nxtra, an Indian IT service management company, has announced plans to invest $296.8 million in a new hyperscale data centre in southern India

YTL appoints MLAs for data centre

Malaysian infrastructure conglomerate YTL has appointed Maybank and OCBC as MLAs to arrange a $257 million Islamic term financing facility for a solar-powered data centre in southern Peninsular Malaysia

Japan’s NTT to invest $3.5bn in Indian digital infra

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, a Japanese telecoms giant, will invest $3.5 billion into India’s digital infrastructure over the next several years