EQT
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Abu Dhabi-owned Mubadala Investment Company has bought a stake in Scandinavian carrier GlobalConnect from Swedish investor EQT. -
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'.
Forthcoming events
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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.
