Bayfront Infrastructure Management, a platform backed by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek, is preparing another asset-backed securitisation transaction

The infrastructure projects business of 3i has spun off into Alba Infra Partners, a Paris-based manager with around €1 billion in assets under management

Singapore has launched a green data centre roadmap to provide at least 300MW of additional capacity in the country

Iliad said it plans to invest €2.5 billion in its data centre unit, OPCORE, and is looking to offload a minority stake

Khazna Data Centres will build a 30MW data centre in the Mafraq Industrial Area, Abu Dhabi

Zegona has completed the acquisition of Vodafone Spain for €5 billion following approvals from the Spanish authorities, the Financial Conduct Authority and London Stock Exchange

Google has committed to an investment of $2 billion to develop its first data center and Google Cloud region in Malaysia

The European Commission has approved KKR’s acquisition of Telecom Italia’s fixed network, concluding that it “would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic Area"

Amber Infrastructure has agreed to merge with US-based real estate and fixed income manager Boyd Watterson in a joint company with around $35.7 billion in assets under management

The New Mexico State Investment Council has committed around $466 million to 2 infrastructure funds

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has launched the Neo Space Group to support satellite operations

Greek group Mytilineos Energy & Metals has signed solar offtake agreements with a fund of Singapore-headquartered infrastructure asset manager Keppel for supplying renewable electricity to 2 data centres in Dublin

Sidley Austin has hired Ben Thompson and Stephen Boone as partners in its UK and US energy & infrastructure practices respectively

A group of international institutional investors have anchored a bond issuance from African telecom company Helios Towers

T-Mobile has agreed to acquire UScellular’s wireless operations, including its customers, stores and certain specified spectrum assets, for around $4.4 billion