Herbert Smith Freehills has hired Webber Wentzel partner Carey-Anne Jennings as a director for its project development and finance team in Johannesburg

Singapore-based Evolution Data Centres has tapped American private equity company Warburg Pincus as its financial sponsor to enter the cloud markets in Southeast Asia

The Romanian competition council is assessing the proposed acquisition of Ines Group – one of the largest independent telecoms businesses in the country – by Cloudsys Telecom SRL

Kirkland & Ellis has hired M&A lawyer Sara Pickersgill as a partner to expand the firm’s European energy and infrastructure offering

Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners has this month promoted digital infrastructure veteran Waldemar Maurer to partner

Telecom company Lumen is investing in a fibre pair on the Grace Hopper subsea cable which connects landing stations between New York and Bude, Cornwall, in the UK

UK wholesale full-fibre provider ITS Technology Group has acquired dark fibre provider NextGenAccess from investor International Public Partnerships Limited

Société Générale’s private bank Kleinwort Hambros has launched a UCITS fund to invest in infrastructure and specialist property assets in the UK

UBS Asset Management UBS-AM-owned Datum Datacentres has acquired independent Manchester-based colocation data centre, Teledata UK for an undisclosed sum

Cherian George of Fitch Ratings fame has cropped up in a new role having joined Keystone Global as a senior adviser

Macquarie Asset Management has appointed Irina Luckey as a managing director to support its infrastructure secondaries business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Spanish fibre network operator Onivia will expand its network to acquire access to 500,000 homes from MásMóvil with support from Macquarie Capital

The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has approved US telecom services provider Viasat’s acquisition of British satellite business Inmarsat Group Holdings

IJGlobal is delighted today to reveal a shortlist for the ESG Awards to recognise developments in the last financial year – April 2021 through March 2022