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Bank Street provides insightful and objective advice to help our corporate and institutional clients achieve their financial and strategic goals. We are a private investment banking firm primarily serving growth companies in the communications, media and technology sectors with a comprehensive array of services, including Merger & Acquisition Advisory, Debt and Equity Financing, and Restructuring Advisory. Our senior professionals leverage a combination of extensive transaction experience and deep industry expertise to deliver outstanding results for our clients.
Tilman Global Holdings was founded by Sanjiv Ahuja to build, operate, and invest in telecom infrastructure businesses globally; current portfolio companies and affiliates are actively operating in the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America.
Mr. Ahuja previously led the turnaround of Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) from 1994 to 2000, and served as the CEO of Orange S.A. from 2003 to 2007.
As Chairman of Tillman Global Holdings, Mr. Ahuja is building telecommunications infrastructure in the U.S. and Europe through various portfolio companies operating under the TGH umbrella.
TGH brings extensive experience as a true owner-operator and provides a differentiated value proposition for customers across global markets unlike Tillman's competitors.
Worldwide reputation for being customer-focused and cooperative, with a track record of delivery and execution, and a proven history as an industry disruptor.
Operator-first approach focused on deploying future-proof infrastructure and providing ancillary services, such as energ and financing solutions, to meet long-term needs of customers.
TGH's deep-rooted C-level relationships, and depth of transaction and operating experience drive differentiated ability to cater to customer's needs.
TGH and its affiliated have raised over $7.0 billion of long-term capital.
Stonepeak is a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets with approximately $72 billion of assets under management. Through its investment in defensive, hard-asset businesses globally, Stonepeak aims to create value for its investors and portfolio companies, with a focus on downside protection and strong risk-adjusted returns. Stonepeak, as sponsor of private equity and credit investment vehicles, provides capital, operational support, and committed partnership to grow investments in its target sectors, which include digital infrastructure, energy and energy transition, transport and logistics, and real estate. Stonepeak is headquartered in New York with offices in Houston, Washington, D.C., London, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Abu Dhabi. For more information, please visit www.stonepeak.com.
TD Securities offers a wide range of integrated capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience.
With 7,000 professionals operating out of more than 30 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions.
We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.
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For decades, CoBank's Digital Infrastructure Banking Group has provided unique lending solutions to a wide range of sectors including incumbent local exchange carriers, cable and wireless broadband, competitive fiber, data centers, and wireless and tower infrastructure providers. We enable companies to deliver and expand high-speed fiber broadband services to the home, enterprise and expand service to new and underserved territories.
Kirkland & Ellis is an international law firm that serves a broad range of clients around the world in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and white collar and government disputes. Kirkland offers the highest quality legal advice coupled with extraordinary, tailored service to deliver exceptional results to our clients and help their businesses succeed. Kirkland invests in the brightest legal talent and build dynamic teams that operate at the pinnacle of their respective areas. And believes in empowering our lawyers, encouraging entrepreneurialism, operating ethically and with integrity, and collaborating to bring our best to every engagement. With more than 7,000 employees (including approximately 4,000 lawyers) operating from offices in 21 cities across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Kirkland is one of the largest law firms in the world.
Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors. The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors.
Moelis & Company's experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters.
The Firm serves its clients from 23 locations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.
gaiia is a leading provider of OSS/BSS solutions for the telecommunications industry. With its comprehensive platform, gaiia offers ISPs an all-in-one solution for billing, CRM, operations, automation, and more. Founded with a vision to simplify and optimize ISP operations, gaiia empowers providers worldwide to deliver exceptional services and drive growth in the digital age.
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated is a $204 billion asset regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 1866, The Huntington National Bank and its affiliates provide consumers, small and middle-market businesses, corporations, municipalities, and other organizations with a comprehensive suite of banking, payments, wealth management, and risk management products and services. Huntington operates approximately 978 branches in 12 states, with certain businesses operating in extended geographies.
Orrick is a leading global law firm with offices in 25 global markets servicing the Energy & Infrastructure, Technology & Innovation, Finance and Life Sciences sectors. Our cross-disciplinary teams provide comprehensive support for data center operators, developers and investors with respect to project development, low carbon power sourcing and offtake, public and private finance, interconnection, leasing, M&A and joint ventures. We have structured and continue to advise on structuring numerous behind-the-meter, clean transition tariffs, utility sleeves, vPPA and physical PPA structures for data centers utilizing solar, wind, storage, gas-fired and nuclear/SMR technologies. Over the past 15 months, we have supported more than 25 innovative data center transactions—including six landmark PPAs—across 20 countries. For more information, please visit us at Data Centers.
As one of the original market participants, Weil’s Private Equity practice has remained a pioneer of the industry since advising many of the first private equity sponsors over 30 years ago. From becoming the first U.S. firm to support private equity clients in Europe and Asia, to more recent expansions into Los Angeles and San Francisco, Weil remains at the forefront of innovation, ready to serve clients wherever they operate. Today, Weil is uniquely positioned in the market, advising clients across the private equity spectrum—from first-time funds to the largest global sponsors—while continuing to deliver the commercial, sophisticated counsel that has defined, and will continue to define, its market-leading reputation.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo, the global MUFG network encompasses approximately 2,000. Locations in more than 40 countries, and provides services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates delivers the highest quality advice and novel solutions to legal challenges, enabling clients to achieve their business goals. We are known for the innovative and creative thinking we rely on to handle the most complex transactions, litigation/controversy issues, and regulatory matters, as well as the open, collaborative relationships we build with clients, including corporations; financial and governmental entities; small, entrepreneurial companies; and cultural, educational and charitable institutions. Our attorneys, who reflect a broad range of experiences and perspectives, collaborate seamlessly across our 21 offices in the world’s major financial centers.
Calix is a cloud and appliance-based platform and managed services company. Broadband service providers leverage the Calix broadband platform, cloud, and managed services to simplify operations, engagement, and service, innovate for their consumer, business, and municipal subscribers, and grow their business and the communities they serve.
Truist Securities is the full-service corporate and investment banking arm of Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC). With a rich history extending back more than 125 years, Truist Securities offers a robust capital markets and investment banking platform that includes a comprehensive array of strategic advisory, mergers and acquisition, and capital markets capabilities for corporate and institutional clients, including sales, trading, and research services in both fixed income and equity. The firm also provides corporate finance, asset finance, risk management, liquidity, and treasury management solutions to meet clients' full spectrum of financial needs. Headquartered in Atlanta, Truist Securities has offices located across the U.S. Learn more at www.truistsecurities.com.
Tillman Infrastructure builds, owns and operates cell site assets across the United States. Since the beginning of 2018, Tillman has been the most active towerco in North America and has built over 1,400 towers in the past 4 years.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2750 attorneys in 49 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. GT’s Digital Infrastructure, Data Center and Cloud Computing Industry Group is composed of a dedicated team of attorneys with experience advising clients in virtually every type of cloud transaction, including some of the largest data center operators and content and cloud service providers in the world.
Founded in 1848, Lazard is the preeminent financial advisory and asset management firm, with operations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Lazard provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and capital solutions, restructuring and liability management, geopolitics, and other strategic matters, as well as asset management and investment solutions to institutions, corporations, governments, partnerships, family offices, and high net worth individuals. For more information, please visit Lazard.com.
Communications networks, data centers, wireless access sites and networked devices are the critical physical infrastructure of the modern global economy. These infrastructure investments are downside-protected by ownership or control of long-lived hard assets, stable recurring revenue business models, and low exposure to technology risk. GI Partners has been a leading investor in data infrastructure for over 20 years. Led by senior professionals with deep backgrounds in investment and operational leadership, GI Data Infrastructure serves as a thought partner as well as a capital partner to our portfolio company management teams. We work closely with management to ensure reliable delivery of mission-critical services and unlock latent value creation opportunities.
Ripple Fiber is an independent, privately held company with a team of over 150 specialized team members assisting in the delivery of world-class fiber-to-the-home. With a 10 gig-ready, 100 percent fiber optic network, the internet service provider is redefining connectivity in communities across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Michigan. Anticipating rapid expansion in 2025, Ripple Fiber leverages its patented technology and strategic partnerships to thoughtfully scale its network. Committed to promoting digital empowerment, Ripple Fiber is laying the foundation for more connected communities by accelerating broadband access.
AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges—from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk mitigation to accelerated transformation. These are the moments when everything is on the line—a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver. We partner with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And we are right by your side. When it really matters.
Established in 2021, Tillman Fiber is not your ordinary start up. We combine years of fiber-optic experience with the latest technologies to design, build, and operate the fastest, most reliable network available.
As part of the Tillman Global Holdings portfolio of companies, we benefit from their scale and experience investing in and operating telecommunications and energy infrastructure businesses. Our capabilities are recognized by Northleaf Capital Partners, whose investment is helping accelerate creation of our open-access network.
Our Mission.
Build and operate an industry leading, 100% Fiber to the Premise (FTTP) network. Tillman FiberCo LLC will build and operate a 100% FTTP network to deliver symmetrical gigabit broadband internet access and services to residential and commercial customers. We will offer a superior value proposition while empowering customers with leading-edge customer experiences powered by analytics and artificial intelligence.
PMP Strategy is a fully independent strategic management consulting firm, led by 20 Partners, with a team of over 150 specialized consultants and a wide network of expert advisors. They have established themselves as trusted partners to C-suites and investors for various projects, including Strategy & Transformation, Private Equity, Digital, Data & Customer Experience, and CFO Advisory & Integrated Performance CSR-ESG. The depth and breadth of PMP Strategy's sectorial expertise extends to four focus areas: Telecoms, Media & Technology, Transportation & Mobility, Energy & Industry Decarbonization, and Financial Services & Insurance.

PMP Strategy, established in 2003, has eleven offices focused on three strategic regions: Europe (Paris, London, Luxembourg, serving Benelux & DACH, and Brussels), MEA (Casablanca and Dubai) and North America (New York, Seattle, Montreal and Toronto). They build enduring relationships with their clients by working collaboratively to find tailor-made and innovative solutions to the challenges they face. In addition to the firm’s sectorial expertise, their commitment to diversity, people-centricity, and openness are the foundations of their success and remain an integral part of their entrepreneurial practice.
SS&C Intralinks is the pioneer of the virtual data room, enabling and securing the flow of information by facilitating M&A, capital raising and investor reporting. SS&C Intralinks has earned the trust and business of many of the Fortune 1000 and has executed more than USD 35 trillion worth of financial transactions on its platform.
Leading telecom industry strategies that drive growth, transformation, and resiliency
Telecommunications providers and industry players are undergoing rapid transformation—and success requires a strategic, future-focused business model built for growth. Our telecom strategy consulting professionals help clients navigate a complex landscape shaped by 5G migration, data center evolution, network modernization, fiber consolidation, digital infrastructure expansion, emerging technologies, and shifting regulatory pressures. We work with telecom leaders to identify the right priorities, drive long-term growth, and enable portfolio strategy and business model reinvention. For more information, please visit: EY-Parthenon strategy consulting
One-stop-shop provider for in-building connectivity and “network-as-a-service” solutions. Works directly with all constituents, including Mobile Network Operators (“MNOs”), real estate owners and enterprise customers, to design, install, optimize and maintain in-building networks and infrastructure.
Founded in 2018 by seasoned communication industry leaders and headquartered in St. Louis MO, Arcadian is a critical information infrastructure development, construction and operations company. Arcadian builds diverse, lower latency long-haul and middle-mile fiber routes connecting major data center locations and subsea landing stations for its cloud and content customers, while also providing access to new global fiber backbones to digitally stranded rural and tribal communities along its route for its telecom, cable company, ISP and enterprise customers. Arcadian purposefully routes its fiber through remote rural and tribal communities to help bridge the digital divide in the U.S. Arcadian currently has six long-haul fiber routes under development in the Southwestern and Western U.S. that, when completed, will add 3,500+ route miles of critically needed new fiber infrastructure.