The Middle East and North Africa winners of the coveted company category for the IJGlobal Awards 2021 were announced last night at a gala dinner in The Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Dubai

The infrastructure and energy community from around the Middle East and North Africa congregated last night for IJGlobal Awards 2021 to recognise deals closed across the MENA region over the last calendar year

Tracy Whiriskey has joined Linklaters’ Tokyo office as a corporate partner, the law firm announced today

Nordic digital infrastructure provider GlobalConnect Group will acquire fibre infrastructure from Danish network provider Wizer

Christoph Glaser has been appointed to the Patrizia management board as chief financial officer

Phil White is stepping down from his role as managing partner of the 3i Group infrastructure team after 8 years of having led the team, effective 1 July 2022

Antonio Botija and George Watts have been appointed to global alternative investment firm HIG Capital’s infrastructure team as managing partners in the London and New York offices respectively

Antin Infrastructure Partners is to invest in fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) broadband provider Empire – made up of Empire Access and North Penn Telephone

US-based communications firm Trilogy International Partners is to sell its 71.5% stake in Bolivia’s Nuevatel

Financing for Washington DC’s first P3 – the DC Smart Street Lighting project - has been assigned a rating of A3 by Moody’s

While the bulk of the global winners were announced at the IJGlobal Awards 2021 at The Londoner in Leicester Square on 16 March, the final winner was broadcasted just one day later at Gotham Hall in New York

Slovenian telco Iskratel has announced plans to deliver FTTH connection to underserved regions in the UK through a newly established offshoot

Digital infrastructure company Edgnex is to build a 20MW data centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with plans for it to go live in Q3 2023

The International Finance Corporation has partnered with microfinance institution KixiCrédito to help the latter boost the delivery of digital financial services across Angola

KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners have closed their acquisition of global data centre REIT CyrusOne in an all-cash transaction valued at $15 billion