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.

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.

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.
 

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.

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.