Thank you to all our sponsors

  • 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.

  • - Tillman 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 energy 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 affiliates have raised over $7.0 billion of long-term capital.

  • 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.

  • EY-Parthenon teams assist technology, entertainment and telecommunications (TMT) clients with navigating complexities by helping them reimagine their ecosystems, reshape their portfolios and reinvent themselves for a greater future. With global connectivity and scale, our teams focus on strategy realized — helping CEOs design and deliver strategies to better manage challenges while maximizing opportunities as they look to transform their businesses. Our TMT work includes aiding leading investors, telecom service and infrastructure providers, and technology companies with digital infrastructure support and solutions. Overall, from idea to implementation, we help clients build a better working world by fostering long-term value. Learn more: https://www.ey.com/en_us/tmt/strategy-consulting

  • Stonepeak is a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets with approximately $61.1 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 communications, energy and energy transition, transport and logistics, and real estate. Stonepeak is headquartered in New York with offices in Hong Kong, Houston, London, Singapore, and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.stonepeak.com.

  • DigitalBridge (NYSE: DBRG) is a leading global alternative asset manager dedicated to investing in digital infrastructure. With a heritage of over 25 years investing in and operating businesses across the digital ecosystem, including cell towers, data centers, fiber, small cells, and edge infrastructure, the DigitalBridge team manages over $80 billion of infrastructure assets on behalf of its limited partners and shareholders. Headquartered in Boca Raton, DigitalBridge has key offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Luxembourg, and Singapore. For more information, visit: www.digitalbridge.com.

  • Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 66 million consumer and small business clients with approximately 4,300 retail financial centers, including approximately 2,400 lending centers, 2,600 financial centers with a Consumer Investment Financial Solutions Advisor and 1,700 business centers; approximately 16,600 ATMs; and award-winning digital banking with nearly 38 million active users, including approximately 29 million mobile users. Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to approximately 3 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations across the United States, its territories and approximately 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


  • About IPI Partners

    IPI Partners, LLC ("IPI" or the "Firm") is a leading global hyperscale data center platform, solving the most complex digital capacity challenges for the largest technology companies in the world. As of June 30, 2024, IPI is the largest privately-held global investment firm exclusively focused on data centers, with more than $20 billion in total equity and debt commitments and a portfolio encompassing 80 operational and under-construction facilities across 29 markets in North America, Europe, and APAC. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, with over 70 professionals located in Amsterdam, Dallas, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. For more information, please visit ipipartners.com.

    About STACK Infrastructure

     

    STACK provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. With a client-first approach, STACK delivers a comprehensive suite of campus, build-to-suit, colocation, and powered shell solutions in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions. With robust existing and flexible expansion capacity in the leading availability zones, STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK. For more information about STACK, please visit stackinfra.com.

     

    About DF&I

     

    DF&I is the nation’s preeminent dark fiber and conduit infrastructure provider for hyperscalers, carriers, data center operators, and wholesale partners. Look to DF&I for custom-built fiber and conduit connectivity or dedicated connections between data centers anywhere in the nation, as well as the Express Connect network pathways in Data Center Alley. For more information, please visit darkfiberinfra.com.

     

    About RadiusDC

     

    Meeting the colocation demands of tomorrow, RadiusDC owns and operates facilities in strategically located population centers throughout North America. Serving a wide variety of network operators, carriers, MSOs, and content providers, RadiusDC supports the increasingly urgent requirement to expand IT infrastructure to the network edge. For more information, please visit radius-dc.com.
     

  • TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience.

    With more than 7,100 professionals operating out of 34 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.

  • Huntington Bancshares Incorporated is a 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 more than 1,000 branches in 11 states, with certain businesses operating in extended geographies. Huntington also provides vehicle finance, equipment finance, national settlement, and capital market services that extend beyond its core states.

     

  • Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2650 attorneys in 44 locations in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. The firm is a 2022 BTI “Highly Recommended Law Firm” for superior client service and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 250. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 5.0 Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab and is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy as a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono.

     

    For more information visit www.gtlaw.com

  • Founded in 1848, Lazard is one of the world's preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms, 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 www.lazard.com.

  • Societe Generale is a top tier European Bank with more than 126,000 employees serving nearly 25 million clients in 65 countries across the world. We have been supporting the development of our economies for 160 years, providing our corporate, institutional, and individual clients with a wide array of value-added advisory and financial solutions. Our longlasting and trusted relationships with the clients, our cutting-edge expertise, our unique innovation, our ESG capabilities and leading franchises are part of our DNA and serve our most essential objective - to deliver sustainable value creation for all our stakeholders. 

    Supporting its clients across various sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank offers bespoke financial solutions combining innovation, advisory services and high execution quality across three areas of expertise: Investment Banking, Global Finance and Global Markets.

    For more information, visit societegenerale.com.

  • Established 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.

  • A&O Shearman was formed in 2024 via the merger of two historic firms, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling. With nearly 4,000 lawyers globally, we are equally fluent in English law, U.S. law and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets. This combination creates a new kind of law firm, one built to achieve unparalleled outcomes for clients.

  • Boldyn Networks is one of the world’s largest neutral host providers, delivering the advanced shared network infrastructure needed for a smart, inclusive, and sustainable future. It brings together the combined scale and expertise of industry-leading companies with a single purpose: to unlock the power of an interconnected future. From interconnected transit, venues and enterprises, smart cities, next-generation and bespoke private networks, to smart campuses –through Apogee Telecom, a Boldyn Networks company- Boldyn enables new possibilities in the way people live, work and play. Bringing connectivity to the most complex environments. Our portfolio is harnessing fibre, advancing 4G/LTE, accelerating 5G, preparing for 6G–and looking beyond to the next breakthroughs. With headquarters in the UK, our global operations span North America, Europe, and Asia. Boldyn Networks. Reimagine tomorrow. Transform today. 
    Learn more at: www.boldyn.com

  • Founded in 1931, Weil has provided legal services to the largest public companies, private equity firms and financial institutions for more than 90 years. Widely recognized by those covering the legal profession, Weil’s lawyers regularly advise clients globally on their most complex Litigation, Corporate, Restructuring, and Tax, Executive Compensation & Benefits matters. Weil has been a pioneer in establishing a geographic footprint that has allowed the Firm to partner with clients wherever they do business.

  • ING Wholesale Banking offers core banking services and tailored solutions to medium-sized and large companies, major multinationals, financial institutions, and governments. We provide specialised lending, tailored corporate finance, debt & equity market solutions, sustainable finance solutions, payments & cash management, and trade & treasury services.

    With many basic banking products indistinguishable from one bank to another, we want to stand out by providing a superior customer experience. No matter where you are in the world, our network of experts offers you a seamless local experience with a global view. Our more than 60,000 employees offer retail and wholesale banking services in more than 40 countries.  

    We know our stuff and our clients trust us to deliver tailored solutions to meet their needs. With deep sector knowledge across 7 sectors and 29 subsectors, our expertise helps you navigate through the highs and lows of economic cycles.

    We're not just green thought leaders, we actually work hand-in-hand with our clients to address some of the most pressing issues in the world today. From pioneering the first sustainability-linked loan to developing the green derivatives market, we’re creating new ways to build a more sustainable future through banking.

  • 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.

  • Milbank LLP is a leading international law firm providing innovative legal solutions for more than 150 years.  Our clients span the public and private sectors, including governments, state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds, export credit agencies, development banks and multilateral institutions, as well as private companies, lending institutions, private equity firms, hedge funds, institutional investors and financial institutions located around the globe who seek guidance on their most important and complex matters.

     

    Our Energy and Infrastructure Finance group is the leading choice for the financing and development of the world’s most critical and complex projects. With more than 140 dedicated attorneys in the US, UK, South America and across Asia, we’re built for efficient collaboration to meet the demands of the most challenging cross-border deals.  From a first-of-its-kind toll road in Latin America, to a wireless telecom build-out in Southeast Asia to the largest wind and solar farms in the world, we’ve had a hand in many of the most significant energy and infrastructure projects.

  • Datasite is where deals are made. Driving M&A in more than 170 countries. Delivering transactions at the highest level, across sell-side, buy-side, and beyond.  Discover an end-to-end M&A suite built around the world’s most trusted data room.  Call on global support 24/7/365 and cut deal times by up to 40%. For more information, visit www.datasite.com

  • Glass Routes is a FTTH platform backing companies building new broadband networks across the Southeastern United States. The company currently supports two fiber network operators, Ripple Fiber, where Greg Wilson serves as CEO, and HyperFiber, led by previous i3 Broadband CEO Dan Kennedy. ​

    Glass Routes leverages proprietary software tools to target markets with minimal existing fiber coverage, sufficient density for cost-effective builds, and positive demographic trends. Ripple Fiber and HyperFiber construct and operate the networks, achieving strong customer adoption rates driven by seasoned sales and marketing teams. With over 100 years of cumulative industry experience, the leadership teams at Glass Routes, Ripple Fiber and HyperFiber are well positioned to scale fiber deployment across the region rapidly.  

    Glass Routes is majority owned by Platform Investment Partners’ US Fiber Fund and supported by active and experienced minority investors. Today, the group has more than 100,000 passings, and its equity commitments will see it through its first phase of build to a couple hundred thousand passings.

  • 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.

  • Broadband Success Partners is now the leading digital infrastructure M&A technical advisor and due diligence specialist. We’ve completed 90+ due diligence evaluations of networks and data centers for 60+ clients including Antin, Brookfield, CBRE, DigitalBridge, GI Partners, Grain, Macquarie, Novacap, OMERS, Sixth Street, and Stonepeak. We advised BlackRock on Gigapower, and T-Mobile on Metronet. We serve clients in North America, South America, and Europe. Our team consists of former service provider executives including the former CTO of Charter Communications. For more information, please visit www.broadbandsuccess.com

  • 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.