Weil, Gotshal & Manges hires London M&A lawyer

Linklaters corporate partner Sarah Flaherty is leaving the firm to join Weil, Gotshal & Manges as an M&A partner in the London office

Antin acquires regional broadband providers

Antin Infrastructure Partners has completed the acquisitions of Empire Access and North Penn Telephone, leading fibre-to-the-premise broadband providers in New York and Pennsylvania

AirTrunk to launch data centre in Malaysia

AirTrunk, an Asia Pacific and Japan hyperscale data centre specialist, has announced plans to build a 150+MW data centre in Malaysia

StratCap closes cell tower asset acquisition

Investment management firm StratCap has completed the acquisition of nearly $20 million of cell towers and wireless easements

e& ups stake in Vodafone Group

Emirates Telecommunications Group yesterday notified the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange that it had increased its interest in Vodafone Group to 12% of the issued share capital – 3,272.3 million shares

IJGlobal Awards 2022 – APAC Judges

We are delighted to announce the Asia Pacific judging panel for IJGlobal Awards 2022, pulling together a group of industry professionals – all of them with deep experience of infrastructure and energy financing across the region – to decide the fate of the company awards

GIP buys Indian telcom infrastructure provider

Global Infrastructure Partners has reportedly acquired Tower Vision India, an independent telecommunications infrastructure provider, from a group of investors led by Quadrangle Capital Partners

Patrizia, Mitsui launch APAC sustainable fund

Germany-headquartered Patrizia has partnered with Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co to launch an Asia Pacific-focused sustainable infrastructure fund with a target size of up to $1 billion

EIB to finance French fibre roll-out

The European Investment Bank is set to invest €300 million in the Iliad Group to finance its fibre-to-the-home network rollout in France

Earle crops up at Gottex

Robin Earle – who is best known in the infrastructure community for heading up the project finance team at Banco Espirito Santo in London – has surfaced at the private markets team at Gottex

Mirza joins Al Tamimi

Infra partner Suhail Mirza has left Gowling WLG after nearly 3 years to join Al Tamimi in Dubai where he will continue his M&A, infra and commercial transactions legal work

RFP deadline extended for Arizona broadband P3

Arizona has extended the response deadline by more than 2 weeks for its RFP seeking a private partner to provide operations, maintenance and commercialisation services for its for middle-mile fibre infrastructure

IJGlobal Awards 2022 – Latin America Judges

We are delighted to announce the Latin American judging panel for IJGlobal Awards 2022, a team of industry professionals – all of them with deep experience of infrastructure and energy financing – to pick winners for regional excellence

KfW IPEX backs German fibre expansion

KfW IPEX Bank and German consortium Glasfaser Nordwest have reached FC on a debut financing package of circa €800 million