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TMT Finance Awards Europe 2027 celebrates excellence in digital infrastructure dealmaking and investment. It is the only destination for the European dealmaking community to come together to recognise the year’s landmark activity and standout achievements.

Commending the deals, the teams, the companies and the individuals that delivered this year's most significant transactions, it's the perfect opportunity to showcase success and win deserved recognition among your peers.

 

The TMT Finance Awards Europe 2027 celebrate excellence - but the conversations start earlier

Add a TMT Finance Europe 2027 (27-28 January) conference pass to your awards booking to access exclusive insights, strategic discussions, and high-level networking with the industry’s most influential leaders.

Honouring excellence in dealmaking

Celebrate success

Showcase your company’s achievements on digital infrastructure dealmaking's biggest stage. Win coveted recognition for your transactions, your projects and your team.

Build your network

Connect with the who's who of digital infrastructure finance and investment. Meet with peers, make new connections and benchmark your work against the industry's finest.

Elevate your profile

Gain invaluable exposure in front of the industry's most senior dealmakers. Enhance your firm's credibility and put yourself in the conversation to win more business.

Key Dates for your Diary

Thursday
20
August 2026

Entries Open

Friday
23
October 2026

Entry Deadline

Friday
6
November 2026

First shortlists announced 

Thursday
28
January 2027

Awards Dinner

Victoria Coren Mitchell

2027 Host - Victoria Coren Mitchell

Victoria Coren Mitchell is a writer, broadcaster, presenter and former professional poker player. As well as regular appearances on panel shows and a range of newspaper and magazine columns, she is the host of one of the toughest quizzes on television, BBC2’s Only Connect.

Starting her journalism career as a teenager after responding to a Telegraph ad for young writers, Victoria became a freelancer after university writing columns, articles and reviews. She adapted John Diamond’s columns into the critically acclaimed play A Lump in my Throat, and wrote two books before joining the professional poker circuit. She became the first woman to win a European Poker Tour event, and the first player to win two European Main Events. She has commentated and presented poker on TV, and wrote about her experiences in the book For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player.

Victoria has also fronted programmes on radio and TV including Balderdash And Piffle (about language and the history of words) and Radio 4’s Heresy (about defying conventional thinking), as well as documentaries and films on surrealist art, language and Mary Poppins. A panel show regular she has been both guest and host on Have I Got News For You, and appeared on QI, Room 101, Question Time, This Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats, and Would I Lie To You.

Deals of the Year

DigitalBridge, La Caisse acquire Yondr for US$5.8bn.

For acquisition by DigitalBridge and La Caisse of Yondr Group from Cathexis Holdings for c. US$5.8bn.
Financial Advisors: Citi (Sell Side); Morgan Stanley (Buy Side – La Caisse)​
Legal Advisors: White & Case (Sell Side); Clifford Chance (Buy Side – La Caisse), Linklaters (Buy Side – DigitalBridge)​

CVC DIF’s c. US$1bn TDF Fibre unit purchase

For the acquisition by CVC DIF of 100% of TDF’s Fibre business for c. US$1bn.
Financial Advisors: BNP Paribas, DC Advisory (Sell Side); Lazard (Buy Side)​
Legal Advisors: De Pardieu Brocas Maffei, Hogan Lovells (Sell Side); Freshfields (Buy Side)​

PTI acquires Cellnex Ireland for E971m

Phoenix Tower International’s acquisition of Cellnex’s business in Ireland for E971m. 
Financial Advisors: Barclays PLC, Banco Santander (Sell Side); Nomura (Buy Side)​
Legal Advisors: Matheson (Sell Side); Arthur Cox (Buy Side)​

£15bn VodafoneThree merger​

For the merger deal of Vodafone UK and Three UK, by Vodafone and CK Hutchison for £15bn.
Financial Advisors: HSBC, Moelis & Company (Three UK); Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Robey Warshaw (Vodafone UK)​
Legal Advisors: Freshfields, Linklaters (Three UK); Slaughter & May (Vodafone UK)​

£3.3bn Data4 dual-financing package

The structuring of a E3.3bn dual-financing package, divided into E2.2bn of new term debt to refinance 10 operational datacentres (‘StableCo’) and a E1.1bn incremental capex facility (‘GrowthCo’).
Lenders: MUFG, Natixis, SMBC, Société Générale; ABN Amro – report​
Legal Advisors: Linklaters (Data4 – StableCo); Simmons & Simmons (Data4 – GrowthCo); Clifford Chance (Lenders)​

XpFibre’s multi-tranche E5.8bn refinancing​

The multi-tranche E5.8bn refinancing, including bank facilities, inaugural institutional private placement, and capex facility, and a bridge-to-private placement.
Financial Advisors: BNP Paribas, DC Advisory Lenders: BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, ING, MUFG, Natixis and Société
Générale (Underwriters – report) Legal Advisors: Latham & Watkins (Borrowers); A&O Shearman (Lenders)​

Telekom Srbija's US$900m international corporate eurobond

The issuance of US$900m in international corporate eurobond.
Participating Banks: BNP Paribas, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Erste Group, Raiffeisen bank, UniCredit and MUFG​
Legal Advisors: Clifford Chance; Gecić Law​

KKR acquires Gulf Data Hub stake

The acquisition of a stake in Gulf Data Hub by KKR.
Financial Advisors: JPMorgan (Sell Side); Jefferies, RBC Capital Markets (Buy Side)​
Legal Advisors: Baker McKenzie (Sell Side); Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (Buy Side)​

People & Companies

Altman Solon

Ali El Amari, Head of TMT Finance EMEA, Crédit Agricole CIB

Brookfield

David Martin, Corporate Partner, Linklaters

SMBC

Linklaters

For advising DigitalBridge on its US$5.8bn acquisition of Yondr Group

Manjari Govada, Managing Director, DigitalBridge

Laurence Hainault, Senior Managing Director, Evercore

Alexander Oyaert, Chief Investment Officer, Data4

atNorth

Marco Patuano, CEO, Cellnex

Deal Data

Lazard

Lazard

Clifford Chance

A&O Shearman