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Investor News Trending in Digital Infrastructure
Cordiant Capital to launch digital infrastructure investment trust
Source: InvestmentWeekUK Cordiant Capital has targeted a £300m raise for a digital infrastructure investment trust, as it looks to "capitalise on the surging growth in data consumption and traffic". The investment manager will look to issue up to...
Everest Closes 2020 with Acquisition of 40 Midwest Tower Sites
Source: Everest Infrastructure Partners Everest Infrastructure Partners acquired more than 40 tower sites located throughout the Midwest region during 2020. Included in the acquisitions are 30 on-air macro towers located in major markets with an...
Everest Acquires Top Sites, Inc. and California Tower Portfolio
Source: Everest Infrastructure December 19, 2020 Everest Infrastructure Partners has Acquired Top Sites, Inc. and its’ portfolio of wireless towers located in Northern California. “We are incredibly pleased to complete the acquisition of Top...
AST & Science Going Public with $1.8 Billion Valuation of Satellite Broadband Venture
Source: InsideTowers.com On Wednesday, special purpose acquisition company New Providence announced that it would take Texas-based AST & Science public through a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) deal. CNBC reported that satellite...
Virginia Retirement System Pledges $100 Million to Digital Colony Digital Infrastructure Fund
Source: Pensions and Investments Online Virginia Retirement System, Richmond, at a Thursday board meeting announced commitments of $500 million. Within its credit strategies asset class, the $85.1 billion pension fund committed $300 million to Ares...
Cordiant Capital seeks £300m for Digital Infrastructure Fund
Source: The Times UK A Canadian investment company is seeking to raise £300 million on the London stock market to buy up data centres and other infrastructure behind the digital economy. Cordiant Capital, which is based in Montreal, is...
Vertical Bridge Completes Strategic Combination with Eco-Site
Source: Vertical Bridge Combined company now has over 20,000 owned and master-leased towers, including over 1,600 recently built towers; Eco-Site Executives Join Leadership Team at Vertical Bridge BOCA RATON, FLA. (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 23, 2020 Vertical...
Digital Colony Leads $1.2 Billion Investment in Vantage Data Centers
Source: LA Business Journal Digital Colony Management, an investment firm established by downtown-based Colony Capital Inc. and digital infrastructure investor and operator Digital Bridge Holdings, has led a $1.25 billion investment in Denver-based...
Strategic Wireless Acquires Tower Portfolios in Louisiana and Wisconsin
Source: InsideTowers.com Strategic Wireless Infrastructure Funds Management, LLC announced yesterday that through its affiliate, SWI Funds Tower Holdings, LLC, it has completed the acquisition of two separate portfolios consisting of cell towers,...
Alaska Communications to Be Acquired, Go Private for $300M in Cash
Source: Inside Towers Investment firms Macquarie Capital and GCM Grosvenor will acquire Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALSK) for $300 million in cash. The transaction will take Alaska Communications private. The...
American Tower Enters Canadian Market With $3.5B Buy of InSite Wireless
Source: Inside Towers American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire InSite Wireless Group, LLC, which owns, operates and manages approximately 3,000 communications sites, primarily...
Race Communications Announces New Partnership with Oak Hill Capital
Source: PRNewswire SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO and MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Race Communications ("Race"), a fiber-to-the-premises operator serving homes, small businesses and large enterprises across the state...
Policy & Regulatory News
How to use the next stimulus to counter China
Stephen HadleyFormer US National Security Advisor By Stephen J. Hadley and Anja Manuel May 11, 2020 at 4:30 a.m. PDT SOURCE: The Washington Post Stephen J. Hadley was national security adviser in the George W. Bush administration. Anja Manuel, a former U.S. diplomat,...
Why we need a ‘Digital WPA’ similar to the Depression-era Works Progress Administration
SOURCE: THE HILL BY THOMAS MALONE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 05/04/20 11:30 AM EDT 151 How can we treat the economic symptoms of massive unemployment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic? An idea from the history of the Great Depression may help. In the 1930s, the...