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Rautenberg & Company advises Antin Infrastructure Partners and Eurofiber on a strategic partnership with NGN Fiber Network KG.

Our team advised Antin and Eurofiber on a strategic partnership with NGN Fiber Network KG.

Antin is a leading independent private equity firm focused on infrastructure investments. Based in Paris, London and New York, Antin manages four funds that invest in infrastructure in Europe and North America, and target investments in the energy and environment, telecommunications, transportation and social sectors.

Eurofiber is a leading digital infrastructure operator providing smart, open, future‐proof network infrastructure on an open access basis to telecom operators, companies, government bodies and nonprofit organizations with its 38,000 km fiberoptic network across the Netherlands, Belgium, France and stretching into Germany. Eurofiber is backed by its shareholders Antin Infrastructure Partners and the PGGM Infrastructure Fund, part of PGGM Investment Management.

NGN is a leading dark fiber provider in Germany that owns and operates a highly strategic fiber network, covering a substantial portion of Germany. NGN serves MNOs, carriers, DCs and FttH operators with dark fiber turn-key solutions as well as FttH/FttC roll-out projects.

Together, NGN and Eurofiber will seek to accelerate the expansion of NGN’s already extensive network in order to address increasing demand for fiber infrastructure with a nationwide network to be accessible to all German telecom operators, other network operators, multi-national corporations and enterprises in an open and non-discriminatory manner.

Our team around Arndt Rautenberg and Boris Herzog supported Antin and Eurofiber throughout the process, in particular with commercial and strategic advice based on a Technical Due Diligence.

Quick Facts

  • Date
    • July 2021
  • Antin Infrastructure Partners
    • Leading independent private equity firm focused on infrastructure investments
    • EUR 15bn capital raised (June 2021)
    • More than 360 private equity investments across 41 countries
  • Eurofiber
    • Leading digital infrastructure operator in Europe
    • Revenue over EUR 200m (2020)
    • Present in the Netherlands, Belgium, France; 38,000 km fiberoptic network
    • Backed by Antin Infrastructure Partners since 2015 and PGGM since 2020
  • NGN Fiber Network KG
    • Leading German dark fiber provider
    • Extensive long-haul and metropolitan network across 52 cities
  • Deal Size
    • Undisclosed
  • Services
    • Strategic Advisory
    • Technical Due Diligence
  • Team
    • Arndt Rautenberg, Managing Partner
    • Boris Herzog, Partner
    • Sebastian Morck, Manager
    • Dominik Krause, Senior Associate
    • Matthias Winschuh, Associate
    • Andreas Kindt, Senior Advisor

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