Zayo Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

FirstEnergy Transmission is an Akron-based holding company for interstate transmission assets under FirstEnergy Corp. It owns American Transmission Systems, Mid-Atlantic Interstate Transmission, and Trans-Allegheny Interstate Line, operating 24,000 miles of high-voltage lines. The unit delivers 30,000 MW capacity across PJM and MISO markets in 10 states.

SBA Communications owns a portfolio of about 45,000 wireless towers throughout North America, South America, and Africa. It leases space on its towers to wireless service providers, who install equipment to support their wireless networks. The company has a very concentrated customer base, with most revenue in each market being generated by the top few mobile carriers. It owns more than 17,000 towers in the US, which account for about 75% of leasing revenue. Internationally, SBA’s largest presence is in Brazil, where it owns roughly 10,000 towers. SBA operates as a real estate investment trust.

Cellnex owns and operates more than 100,000 wireless towers in Europe, the result of continued merger and acquisition activity since its initial public offering in 2015. It has acquired towers from several European mobile network operators, including Telefonica, Iliad, CK Hutchison, Bouygues, and Altice. Cellnex is present in France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the United Kingdom, among others.

Lancium Technologies is a Houston-based developer of data centers optimized for renewable energy integration. The company deploys distributed computing infrastructure at wind and solar farms in Texas, absorbing excess power to perform high-performance calculations. Lancium operates facilities like the 100 MW Pecos Valley site, partnering with utilities to stabilize grids and monetize curtailment periods.

Inwit is an Italian wireless tower company born from the spinoff of Telecom Italia’s tower assets in 2015. In 2020, Inwit merged its tower assets with those of Vodafone Italia, creating a tower leader in the Italian market with a high-quality portfolio derived from the networks created by Telecom Italia and Vodafone over the past two decades. Inwit owns 25,000 towers, having the highest tenancy ratio and EBITDA margin among the European tower firms. Cellnex is Inwit’s main competitor in Italy, owning a similar number of towers.

Crown Castle owns or manages roughly 40,000 wireless towers in the United States. It leases space on its towers to wireless service providers, which install equipment to support their wireless networks. The company has a very concentrated customer base, with about 75% of its revenue from the Big Three US mobile carriers: Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T. Crown Castle has plans to divest its fiber business, which is expected to be finalized in the first half of 2026. After that, it will be a stand-alone tower operator. Crown Castle operates as a real estate investment trust.

Bersama Digital Infrastructure is a Singapore-headquartered platform owning and operating telecom towers, fiber optic networks, and data centers across Indonesia, Philippines, and Thailand. Controlled by Provident Capital and Saratoga Investama Sedaya, the company manages over 5,000 towers leased to mobile operators like Telkomsel and Globe. Bersama Digital Infrastructure expands fiber connectivity in urban areas supporting 4G and 5G rollouts.

Digital Realty is one of the leading providers of cloud- and carrier-neutral data centers, offering colocation and interconnection services to hyperscalers and large businesses. Digital Realty operates 300 properties in 57 metropolitan areas across 31 countries, serving 5,000 customers. Renting physical space accounts for about 90% of Digital Realty’s revenue. The firm enables hyperscalers and other clients to store servers, data, and networking equipment. The other 10% of revenue is generated primarily through interconnection services (8%) and other fee income (2%).

Northern Indiana Public Service Company is a Merrillville-headquartered utility and the largest natural gas distributor and second-largest electric distributor in Indiana. It serves the northern third of the state as part of NiSource Inc., maintaining distribution networks across 32 counties for residential and commercial customers.

Hitachi Energy India Ltd serves utility, industry, and infrastructure customers with solutions and services across the value chain. The company is engaged in the business relating to products, projects, and services for Power technology. It manufactures and supplies systems, equipment, devices, and accessories products such as disconnectors, cable accessories, electric motors, semiconductors, transformers, and others. The company also provides project and service engineering, installation, commissioning, and support services. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from India and the rest from other countries.

Nscale is an AI infrastructure company and global hyperscaler that builds, owns, and operates data centers and high-density GPU clusters. The neocloud startup integrates everything from renewable power generation to hardware and orchestration software to support AI training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads for enterprises and governments. Unlike traditional cloud providers, Nscale builds and operates its own data centers in regions with abundant, low-cost renewable energy (e.g., hydropower in Norway, renewables in Texas). In West Virginia, the company even owns behind-the-meter natural gas power plants to insulate operations from local grid fluctuations.

IEIT Systems Co Ltd is a provider of IT infrastructure products, solutions, and services. Its business focuses on three fields: servers, storage, and networks. The company is committed to the innovation of digital technology along with the application and integration of digital worlds with the physical world. It is helping enterprises embark on a path of sustainable development by driving intelligent digital transformation.

Columbia Pipelines Holding Company is a Houston-based holding entity that oversees operations of Columbia Gas and Columbia Gulf Transmission. It coordinates natural gas transmission across 15,000 miles of pipelines spanning from the Gulf Coast to New York. The subsidiaries manage interstate pipelines, storage fields, and gathering systems serving the Marcellus, Utica, and Gulf production regions. Established in 2015 ahead of a corporate spin-off, the holding company supports daily transport volumes exceeding 10 billion cubic feet to utilities and power plants in 16 states.

Singapore-based Keppel is an alternative asset manager and operator with SGD 95 billion of funds under management as of the end of December 2025. The group’s key segments are infrastructure, real estate, and connectivity (including telecommunication services and operation of data centers). Most of its earnings are derived from its infrastructure segment, where it invests and operates in a portfolio of infrastructure assets. The group also has a fund management platform comprising listed and unlisted investment trusts that generates recurring fee income.

DT Midstream Inc is an owner, operator, and developer of natural gas midstream interstate and intrastate pipelines; storage and gathering systems; and compression, treatment, and surface facilities. It provides multiple, integrated natural gas services to customers through interstate pipelines, intrastate pipelines, storage systems, lateral pipelines and related treatment plants and compression and surface facilities, and gathering systems and related treatment plants and compression and surface facilities. The segments of the group are Pipeline and Gathering. It generates maximum revenue from pipeline segment that includes interstate pipelines, storage systems, gathering lateral pipelines and compression and surface facilities.

GNDB is a Barcelona-headquartered natural gas distributor operating Spain's extensive pipeline network. The company manages 53,000 kilometers of mains supplying 5.3 million connection points across 1,100 municipalities. GNDB handles metering, maintenance, and expansion for residential, commercial, and industrial customers primarily in Catalonia and eastern Spain. As a Naturgy subsidiary, it integrates with national transmission systems for reliable delivery. Established in 1992, GNDB invests in smart grid upgrades and biogas blending initiatives.

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP is a Bermuda exempted limited partnership that owns and operates quality, long-life assets that generate stable cash flows, by virtue of barriers to entry or other characteristics that tend to appreciate in value over time. It focuses on acquiring infrastructure assets that have low maintenance capital costs and high barriers to entry. The company's segments consist of Utilities, Transport, Midstream, and Data. Geographically, it generates maximum revenue from USA and also has a presence in Australia, Colombia, United Kingdom, Brazil, United States of America, Chile, Peru, and other countries.

AltaGas Ltd owns and operates a diversified basket of energy infrastructure businesses. Business is conducted through given segments: Midstream, Utilities, and Corporate/other. Midstream business consists of export facilities and locates processing, fractionation, and logistics infrastructure, as well as hydrocarbon storage in North America that connects North American producers from wellhead to offshore export and domestic markets. The utility business is offered through its regulated natural gas utilities - Washington Gas and SEMCO. The business generates revenue from customers in both Canada and the United States, with the majority coming from Canadian customers.