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Investor News Trending in Digital Infrastructure
D9 Infrastructure raises £175 million for potential digital infrastructure acquisitions
Source: Data Center Dynamics Company looking to acquires data centers, fiber, and subsea cable over next 12 months UK investment trust D9 Infrastructure has raised £175 million ($246.7 million) to boost its acquisition ambitions. In May the company...
QTS Realty Trust to Be Acquired by Blackstone Funds in $10 Billion Transaction
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. and NEW YORK, June 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) ("QTS" or "the Company") and Blackstone (NYSE: BX), today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Blackstone Infrastructure...
Neuberger Berman Next Generation Connectivity Fund Announces $1.5 Billion Initial Public Offering
Source: PR Newswire NEW YORK, May 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuberger Berman Next Generation Connectivity Fund Inc. (the "Fund"), a newly organized closed-end fund, announced today the initial public offering of its shares of common stock. The Fund...
Digital Colony acquires Landmark Dividend for $972 million
Source: DataCenter Dynamics Infrastructure investment firm Digital Colony has announced plans to acquire Landmark Dividend LLC. Affiliates of Digital Colony this week entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the real estate and...
Gravis launches digital infrastructure fund
Gravis Advisory Limited, a subsidiary of infrastructure and real estate investment specialist Gravis Capital Management Limited, has launched the VT Gravis Digital Infrastructure Income Fund (‘the Fund’) the firm’s fourth OEIC and a unique addition...
Diamond Communications to Acquire Melody Wireless Infrastructure For $1.625B
Diamond Communications LLC and Sculptor Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: SCU) yesterday announced that they have entered into a definitive Stock Purchase Agreement to acquire Melody Wireless Infrastructure, Inc.(MWI). MWI is a private U.S. REIT that...
Digital Alpha Announces Closing of Second Digital Infrastructure Fund at Over $1 Billion
Source: PR Newswire SAN FRANCISCO, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Alpha Advisors ("Digital Alpha"), a leading digital infrastructure investment firm, today announced the closing of Digital Alpha Fund II, L.P. (the "Fund" or "Fund II"), over...
InfraTech SPAC Raises $250M in IPO, Plans Digital Infrastructure Deals
Source: Datacenter Frontier There’s a new public company shopping for a $1 billion acquisition of a digital infrastructure company. InterPrivate IV InfraTech Partners Inc. raised $250 million in its IPO Friday on the NASDAQ market, and will operate...
HORIZON ACQUIRES INFINITY FIBER, LLC
Source: Horizon Connects COLUMBUS, Ohio – March 2, 2021 – Horizon has acquired Infinity Fiber, LLC, anchoring the continued expansion strategy into Indiana. The acquisition provides connectivity to multiple data centers in Indiana and augments...
Digital Colony Swallows Boingo Wireless for $854 million
Source: Capacity Media 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. The private investor said yesterday that it will pay...
Triple Point returns with digital infrastructure IPO
Source: Investment Week UK Triple Point Investment Management is to launch a digital infrastructure-focused investment trust on the London Stock Exchange, hopeful of investor support despite the continuing pandemic. Digital 9 Infrastructure will...
Airtower Networks Secures Private Equity Funding from Lumerity Capital
Source: PR Web Airtower Networks, “One of The Fastest Growing Companies in America” (Inc. 500) and a leading wireless infrastructure provider, announced today that it has successfully closed on a round of new funding. The investment was made by...
Policy & Regulatory News
Telecom Biden targets $100B for universal broadband access in $2T plan
Source: Fierce Telecom U.S. President Joe Biden outlined a plan to allocate $100 billion to fund broadband improvements with the goal of achieving 100% coverage by 2030, as part of a newly unveiled $2 trillion infrastructure package. Among other things, the...
IMF urges infrastructure investment to boost post-COVID growth
Source: Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Monday said member governments should seize a low interest rate opportunity to invest in infrastructure to drive recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and...
Trump Team Weighs $1 Trillion for Infrastructure to Spur Economy
SOURCE: Yahoo Finance The Trump administration is preparing a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure proposal as part of its push to spur the world’s largest economy back to life, according to people familiar with the plan. A preliminary version being prepared by the...
FCC to Vote June 9 on Procedures for Rural Digital Opportunities Fund Auction
SOURCE: InsideTowers.com FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Monday circulated among his colleagues draft procedures for the upcoming $16 billion Phase I Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction (Auction 904). With financial support from the auction, providers will expand broadband...
Lawmakers Ask for Cybersecurity Funding for States
SOURCE: Duo.com By Fahmida Y. Rashid As Congress continues to work on the contents of the next stimulus package, a bipartisan group of lawmakers are trying to gather support for earmarking some funds to modernize state and local governments' IT infrastructure....