EQT
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Abu Dhabi-owned Mubadala Investment Company has bought a stake in Scandinavian carrier GlobalConnect from Swedish investor EQT.
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EQT has added two ESG heavyweights to its growing, global sustainability team.
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GlobalConnect has become the latest ICT firm to join the UN Global Compact initiative, a global scheme whereby private companies submit annual reports on their progress across human rights, labour law, environment and anti-corruption.
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The appetite for private-equity investment is seeing a new peak with both the private-equity owners of Zayo setting record targets for their latest funds.
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Banking as a Service (BaaS) provider Griffin has announced that Chris Forlano and Laura Hauser will join the company in VP roles.
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EQT confirms that the EQT Infrastructure V fund has held its final close at €15.7 billion in 'fee-generating assets'.
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Zayo is in talks to buy two other US carriers, Uniti and Windstream, according to an unconfirmed report.
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OneWeb changes teams; Adamo switches owners; Orange's 5G showcase; and Aqua Comms' Nigel Bayliff
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EQT through its EQT Mid Market Europe fund (EQT Private Equity) has agreed to sell Adamo Telecom (Adamo) to Ardian Infrastructure (Ardian) for an undisclosed sum.
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Stonepeak now owns a 50% stake in DELTA Fibre following an ownership shakeup.
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EQT Infrastructure V is to co-invest in EdgeConneX, alongside EQT Infrastructure, with each fund taking an equal ownership stake.
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Netherlands-based DELTA Fiber has turned to Nokia for its ongoing fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) build as it deploys a next-generation optical transport network, based on 400G wavelengths.
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Cox Communications has bought the commercial side of Swedish investor EQT’s Segra fibre business for an undisclosed price.
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Swedish private equity investor EQT is making another attempt to buy KPN, this time with US investor Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, according to reports.
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Dan Caruso’s new company plans to offer customers access to cloud services on its first quantum computer this year, and to offer further models for sale in 2022.
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The investor that owns all of EdgeConneX and 50% of Zayo is expanding its operations into Japan.
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Telcos might give stable returns on long-term infrastructure, but stock markets don’t seem to like the industry, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray. That’s why private equity investors and pension funds are stepping in
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EdgeConneX has announced that its acquisition by EQT Infrastructure from an investor group led by Providence Equity Partners, has closed.
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Dan Caruso has stepped down from the leadership of Zayo, the company he co-founded in 2007.
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EQT, the Swedish investor that owns half of Zayo, is looking to buy KPN, according to unconfirmed reports.
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Spanish telco Euskaltel Group has entered into an agreement with fibre optic operator Adamo to access its one-million-home, nationwide network.
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The banks handling the planned sale of GTT Communications’ so-called Apollo infrastructure unit – the former Interoute and Hibernia Networks – have received two bids, Capacity understands.
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Digital Colony and EQT’s Zayo has hired a former senior executive in Interoute and GTT to run its European business – just as GTT reaches the final stages of selling its infrastructure operations.
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This episode features editor-in-chief Joao Marques Lima, deputy editor Melanie Mingas and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.
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Zayo is now a private company, owned by a joint venture of Digital Colony and EQT after completion of a $14.3 billion purchase, 10 months after it was announced.
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Zayo will cease to be a publicly quoted company a week on Monday – 9 March – when its $14.3 billion takeover by Digital Colony and EQT Infrastructure is completed.
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Digital Colony and EQT, the two private equity investors buying Zayo, will begin raising $3 billion in debt to help fund the purchase.
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Private equity company EQT invested a record €11.9 billion in infrastructure and other companies in 2019, CEO Christian Sinding said this morning.
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Acquisitive Swedish investor EQT, which is buying Zayo in a joint venture with Digital Colony, has made “a significant growth investment” in RIMES, a provider of managed data services for financial institutions.
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EQT has already allocated around €14 billion from the €20 billion investment funds it set up in 2018 – just as it is ready to start raising another €14 billion in a fund that the company announced a week ago.
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Stockholm-based infrastructure investor EQT is trying to raise €14.75 billion for its next round of spending.
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EQT Infrastructure-owned GlobalConnect has partnered with Versa Networks as it strives to become “the integrated digital infrastructure leader in Northern Europe”.
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Swedish infrastructure investor EQT is reportedly in talks to buy data centre firm EdgeConneX for $2.5 billion deal.
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EQT, the Swedish infrastructure investor, is buying a German broadband fibre company, Inexio, for a reported €1 billion.
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A second bidder has walked away from Vocus after deciding not to bid for the Australian telecoms company.
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Marc Ganzi’s Digital Colony has added a fourth operation to its UK portfolio of small-cell businesses by buying Spyder Facilities.
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EQT Partners has sold Swedish fibre infrastructure provider IP-Only from its mid-market funds to its infrastructure fund at an enterprise value of SEK 18.25 billion ($1.93bn).
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An energy company has stepped in with a bid for Australian telco and subsea operator Vocus, just days after a Scandinavian bid collapsed.
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Private equity group EQT Infrastructure has submitted a takeover bid of $2.27 billion (AUD$3.27bn) for Vocus, Australia’s fourth largest telecom operator.
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Scandinavian-based private equity group EQT has signed an agreement to acquire Maltese telecommunications operator Melita from Apax Partners and Fortino Capital.
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Marc Ganzi’s Digital Colony and EQT Infrastructure IV fund has agreed to buy fibre network owner Zayo Group Holdings for $14.3 billion including debt.