Accelerating digital infrastructure investment strategies

LBBW (Moody’s: Aa2 stable) is Germany’s premier medium-sized universal bank and the second largest bank by assets, boasting a balance sheet of €333 billion (2023), a profit of €1.4 billion, and a workforce of over 10,000 employees.

Our Infrastructure & Transportation Finance division, part of LBBW’s Real Assets department, serves as a key financier for Core and Core+ infrastructure projects. With a team of 50+ professionals across Stuttgart, Leipzig, London, and New York, we are dedicated to driving forward critical infrastructure advancements.

LBBW is committed to significantly contributing to the digital transformation journey, paving the way for a more connected and innovative future.

EY-Parthenon consisting of more than 10,000 multidisciplinary professionals across 120 countries helping provide EY clients with corporate, transaction and turnaround strategies that are actionable, impactful and provide long-term growth. With global connectivity and scale, backed up by the broader EY network, EY-Parthenon teams work with clients to navigate complexity by helping them to reimagine their ecosystems, reshape their portfolios and reinvent themselves for a better future. EY-Parthenon teams believe every successful business strategy is underpinned by an in-depth understanding of industry dynamics and the competitive landscape in which it sits. EY-Parthenon teams help clients develop actionable and impactful ways to manage complex shifting challenges and transform their organizations. For more information, please visit ey.com/parthenon.

Vitrifi enables telcos to embrace a data-driven, digital-first future through advanced, intent-driven automation. With deep tech DNA embedded across our global development teams, we stand as an autonomic networking company poised to revolutionise the global telco BSS and OSS sectors using cutting-edge machine learning and AI-powered data insights. 

Vitrifi serves as a neutral host and aggregator, connecting fibre Network Operators with Retail Service Providers (RSPs). Our modular services are designed to tackle critical pain points, enhance interoperability, and harness actionable data to deliver exceptional customer experiences. By automating the entire customer lifecycle management, our platform significantly reduces the cost to serve while elevating customer journeys through a zero-human-touch approach.  It supports rapid onboarding, instant provisioning, and multi-tenancy at scale, managing both buy-side and sell-side product catalogues simultaneously.

At the core of our innovation is VALERIE (Vitrifi Autonomic Lattice Re-Configuration Engine), the "brain" behind our broadband operating system. VALERIE supports all access models, ensuring optimal network performance and reliability.

Our vendor-neutral, API-first approach, robust RBAC, and compliance with UK TSA-level cybersecurity standards ensure a secure and efficient environment for seamless integration and optimal resource utilisation.

Analysys Mason is a global technology, media and telecoms management consulting firm. We strive to be the leading authority and catalyst for digital change, connectivity and inclusion. ​We provide bespoke strategy, transaction, transformation, regulation and policy consulting, in combination with research and insights delivered by a dedicated, globally respected analyst team. ​

Supporting our clients through complex transformation journeys, we help to shape and determine the decisive moments that steer progress and help them act on the decisions that create lasting value, advantage and change. We are the trusted partner of major enterprises, operators, government authorities and prominent investors across over 140 countries. We work closely together, delivering essential advice and insights that drive efficiencies, mitigate risk and accelerate growth, putting our clients at the forefront of change.​

With an expert team of over 400 colleagues, our power is in our people, our intellectual agility and our environment that fosters success. We are strategists, academics, engineers and orchestrators of change. We zero in on the details and are united in the innovative application of our knowledge and experience for the good of our clients. We are committed to a sustainable, connected future – contributing to a world where technology delivers for all.

At CMS, we are proud to have some of the leading global legal specialists in the technology, media and communications sector. 

Our Digital Communications Infrastructure Team combines exceptional expertise in project and structured finance, competition regulation and large-scale investment, while our market-leading telecommunications team has decades of experience in the technology and communications space, including strong expertise in the areas of fibre, towers, subsea cables, network sharing, data centres and satellite. 

With full-service offices in over 40 countries, we have the geographic reach, people and expertise to manage the biggest and busiest volumes of sector-specific work for our clients.

Kao Data leads the industry, pioneering the development and operation of data centres engineered for AI and advanced computing. With hyperscale-inspired facilities east and west of London, and northern England’s largest data centre planned for Greater Manchester, we are home to technology’s most demanding computing infrastructure.

Our award-winning, NVIDIA DGX-Ready certified data centres are designed, engineered and operated by one of the industry’s most respected teams. Together, this provides colocation customers deploying mission critical AI, enterprise and cloud workloads with a secure, scalable and sustainable compute environment, backed by a guarantee of 100% uptime.

Kao Data’s data centre portfolio includes more than 160MW of IT-load either currently operational, under development or planned – all of which is under-pinned by the highest energy efficiency, sustainability and ESG credentials.

Backed by leading international investors, and with several pioneering ‘industry firsts’ to our name, Kao Data represents the future in industrial scale, high-capacity data centres for AI and the next generation of compute.

Ardian is a world-leading private investment house, managing or advising $169bn of assets on behalf of more than 1,600 clients globally. Our broad expertise, spanning Private Equity, Real Assets and Credit, enables us to offer a wide range of investment opportunities and respond flexibly to our clients’ differing needs. Through Ardian Customized Solutions we create bespoke portfolios that allow institutional clients to specify the precise mix of assets they require and to gain access to funds managed by leading third-party sponsors. Private Wealth Solutions offers dedicated services and access solutions for private banks, family offices and private institutional investors worldwide. Ardian’s main shareholding group is its employees and we place great emphasis on developing its people and fostering a collaborative culture based on collective intelligence. Our 1,050+ employees, spread across 19 offices in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Middle East are strongly committed to the principles of Responsible Investment and are determined to make finance a force for good in society. Our goal is to deliver excellent investment performance combined with high ethical standards and social responsibility. At Ardian we invest all of ourselves in building companies that last.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2650 attorneys in 44 locations in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. The firm is a 2022 BTI “Highly Recommended Law Firm” for superior client service and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 250. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 5.0 Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab and is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy as a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono.

Eurofiber has been a provider of industry-leading open digital infrastructure since 2000. Utilizing its own fiberoptic network and datacenters, we provide smart, open, future-proof cloud infrastructure and connectivity solutions to companies, government bodies and non-profit organizations. Customers have complete freedom to choose the services, applications, and providers they need, allowing them to tap into the full potential of digital innovation. Eurofiber has a 70,500 km fiberoptic network in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Germany. This network is expanded by 50 km per week on average. Eurofiber companies operate ten datacenters in the Netherlands and France. Supplementing that vital infrastructure, we also offer interconnectivity between nearly all carrier-neutral datacenters in The Netherlands and Belgium through the DCspine platform. Eurofiber is laying the foundation under the digital society, which is why the Dutch government has assigned Eurofiber the status of ‘vital infrastructure’.

The Eurofiber Group consists of Eurofiber (The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany), and Eurofiber Cloud Infra (The Netherlands). Eurofiber also participates in FTTH focused activities in the joint venture Unifiber in Belgium, and has an investment partnership with a nationwide fiber infrastructure operation with NGN Fiber Network (Germany).

Eurofiber is backed by Antin Infrastructure Partners, and PGGM infrastructure Fund as a minority shareholder. Antin is a leading private equity firm focused on infrastructure. With over EUR31bn in assets under management across its Flagship, Mid Cap and NextGen investment strategies, Antin targets investments in the digital, energy and environment, transport, and social infrastructure sectors. PGGM Infrastructure Fund is an open-ended fund with EUR14bn assets under management in infrastructure investments and active in the digital infrastructure sector since 2010.