Marc Ganzi
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Marc Ganzi’s Freshwave infrastructure company has appointed a UK government infrastructure official to a senior post, with just a weekend gap.
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Marc Ganzi’s infrastructure investment company, DigitalBridge, has appointed Bernardo Vargas Gibsone as its managing director and head of Latin America.
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DigitalBridge is selling one of its recent acquisitions after less than three years, to Antin Infrastructure, which has stakes in CityFibre and Eurofiber.
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Datacentre operator Switch reportedly misled investors by not disclosing key financial details as it pursued a US$11 billion deal with DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors.
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DigitalBridge Group (DigitalBridge) confirms the recapitalisation of DataBank, its edge data centre platform portfolio company.
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Mark Ganzi’s DigitalBridge is to buy Switch, a Las Vegas-based data centre operator, for US$11 billion in cash.
Forthcoming events
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DigitalBridge Group's (DigitalBridge) affiliate, DigitalBridge Investments is to acquire AMP Capital’s global infrastructure equity investment management business.
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DigitalBridge has led a $60 million Series C funding round in Celona, an enterprise IT infrastructure company that uses 5G wireless.
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DigitalBridge Investments, an affiliate of DigitalBridge Group, has agreed to acquire the mobile telecoms tower business (TowerCo) of Telenet Group (Telenet).
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DigitalBridge Group has published its fourth quarter (Q4) and full year (FY) 2021 financial results
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DigitalBridge Group has announced the formation of its new towerco ÍslandsTurnar.
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The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) is investing US$100 million in DigitalBridge tower and data centre projects in Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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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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DigitalBridge Group (DigitalBridge) has formed a partnership with ImpactData to deliver digital learning infrastructure for underserved communities.
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DigitalBridge Group (DigitalBridge) has released its second quarter 2021 financial results that saw the company reach total revenues of $237 million.
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Infrastructure investment company Colony Capital is to rename itself DigitalBridge Group from 22 June.
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Marc Ganzi’s Colony Capital is making one of its biggest moves ever out of non-digital investments, so that it can focus on digital infrastructure.
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Wifi and mobile infrastructure company Boingo Wireless is now officially part of Digital Colony after March’s takeover bid was completed last week.
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Andean Telecom Partners (ATP) has closed its $375,000,000 debt offering, worth 4.05% Senior Secured Notes due 2026.
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The former COO of Profesional Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Michael Bucey, and former CFO of Interxion, Josh Joshi, have joined Digital Colony as operating partners.
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TIM Brasil, the Latin American offshoot of the former Telecom Italia, is to expand its 4G mobile network using solar energy in off-grid areas.
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Digital Colony’s Edgepoint offshoot is spending US$750 million on buying more that 4,200 towers from Indosat Ooredoo, the Indonesian telco owned by Qatar’s Ooredoo.
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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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Mobile infrastructure and wifi company Boingo Wireless is to become part of Digital Colony’s empire, which already includes FreshWave, Highline do Brasil and 50% of Zayo.
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Vantage Data Centers doubled its size in terms of markets served, and increased IT capacity by more than 90% in 2020.
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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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US investor Digital Colony has made its second new investment in towers in two days, by buying Eco-Site, just a day after it bought Phoenix Towers in Brazil.
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Highline do Brasil, the tower company owned by Digital Colony, is to buy another Brazilian tower company, Phoenix, from existing owner Blackstone.
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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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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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Based on the growing demand to 100G ports, Zayo Group Holdings has expanded its IP Transit capacity in Phoenix, San Jose and Denver.
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Digital Colony and its subsidiaries highlighted a “resilient underlying business” in its Q2 financial results – the first results to be published since the appointment of a new CEO and CFO.
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A company bought last December by Marc Ganzi’s Digital Colony is set to buy bankrupt Brazilian operator Oi within the next few days.
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In his first interview since the Zayo acquisition, Marc Ganzi tells Alan Burkitt-Gray about his bid by Digital Colony with EQT, and what Zayo will do under new ownership.
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Marc Ganzi will become CEO of Colony Capital on 1 July, the company has announced. He is already CEO of Digital Colony.
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The $14.3 billion deal to buy Zayo, completed this month, began with a meeting five years ago at one of Capacity’s conferences.
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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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Investors seemed keen last night to buy $2.58 billion worth of bonds from the joint venture that is set to buy the Zayo Group.
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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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Digital Colony, the Marc Ganzi investment group that is bidding for Zayo, has unified three of its UK operations under a new brand, Freshwave.
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Stockholm-based infrastructure investor EQT is trying to raise €14.75 billion for its next round of spending.