15th annual conference and awards
TMT Finance Europe 2027
Accelerating Smart Investment in
Digital Infrastructure
Digital Infrastructure
27 - 28 January 2027 | Convene 133 Houndsditch, London
Technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) companies sit at the heart of global transformation, shaping how we work, connect, and experience the world. From driving AI innovation to enabling new digital ecosystems, the sector is redefining the boundaries of customer engagement and business growth. Yet, as competition intensifies and disruption accelerates, TMT organizations must evolve fast to stay relevant and resilient.
EY helps TMT businesses navigate this complexity by creating distinctive customer and employee experiences, building trusted and secure digital operations, and supporting growth through M&A and ecosystem partnerships. Drawing on deep sector insights and global expertise, EY works alongside industry leaders to unlock innovation, drive agility, and deliver sustainable value across an ever-changing landscape.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a leading global law firm with over 1,000 lawyers, renowned for solving complex legal and business challenges. The firm is recognized for market-leading practices in M&A, private equity, litigation, regulatory defense, and restructuring, alongside strong capabilities in tax, intellectual property, and capital markets. Bringing the same dedication to client service for which Paul, Weiss is known globally, our team of more than 45 partners and 200 lawyers in London delivers premier legal services for their most complex and significant cross-border transactions in the United Kingdom, Europe and beyond. The Paul, Weiss Infrastructure Group provides comprehensive counsel to leading global companies, investors and financial sponsors on complex transactions spanning the infrastructure sector. This includes some of the world’s highest-profile digital infrastructure transactions, as well as a number of first-of-their-kind and novel deals in the sector.
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.
Analysys Mason is a global technology, media and telecoms management consulting firm. We strive to be the leading authority and catalyst for digital change, connectivity and inclusion. We provide bespoke strategy, transaction, transformation, regulation and policy consulting, in combination with research and insights delivered by a dedicated, globally respected analyst team.
Supporting our clients through complex transformation journeys, we help to shape and determine the decisive moments that steer progress and help them act on the decisions that create lasting value, advantage and change. We are the trusted partner of major enterprises, operators, government authorities and prominent investors across over 140 countries. We work closely together, delivering essential advice and insights that drive efficiencies, mitigate risk and accelerate growth, putting our clients at the forefront of change.
With an expert team of over 400 colleagues, our power is in our people, our intellectual agility and our environment that fosters success. We are strategists, academics, engineers and orchestrators of change. We zero in on the details and are united in the innovative application of our knowledge and experience for the good of our clients. We are committed to a sustainable, connected future – contributing to a world where technology delivers for all.
At CMS, we are proud to have some of the leading global legal specialists in the technology, media and communications sector.
Our Digital Communications Infrastructure Team combines exceptional expertise in project and structured finance, competition regulation and large-scale investment, while our market-leading telecommunications team has decades of experience in the technology and communications space, including strong expertise in the areas of fibre, towers, subsea cables, network sharing, data centres and satellite.
With full-service offices in over 40 countries, we have the geographic reach, people and expertise to manage the biggest and busiest volumes of sector-specific work for our clients.
Nomura is a financial services group with an integrated global network. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its four business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Banking. Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership.
For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com.
With a global platform of approximately 4,000 lawyers in 22 cities across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Kirkland & Ellis provides elite legal advice and a relentless commitment to client service. Kirkland is a market-leader in each of its core practice areas, including 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 government, regulatory and internal investigations.
Kirkland’s energy and infrastructure platform comprises of over 600 lawyers specialising in the following practice areas: project finance, M&A, acquisition finance, regulatory, tax, tax equity and investment funds
As demonstrated by league tables and market involvement, Kirkland is engaged in all aspects of the energy and infrastructure sector and, since 2020, has globally advised on over 900 infrastructure transactions across each major infrastructure vertical and throughout Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is a leading global bank and a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, one of the world’s largest financial institutions by assets. We combine global reach with deep Japanese heritage, tracing our origins back over 400 years to copper and kimono merchants in Japan.
Today, we are a trusted financial partner to clients around the world, with a strong and enduring presence in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) that spans more than a century. Our universal banking platform - covering structured and trade finance, investment banking, treasury, and asset leasing - supports growth and resilience in an ever-changing world.
We operate a network of over 120,000 employees across 150 offices in more than 40 countries, including 20+ offices in EMEA.
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.
ING is a leading global bank with a strong European base, serving clients in 35 markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Americas, and Asia Pacific. With over 60,000 employees worldwide, we provide specialised lending, tailored corporate finance, debt and equity market solutions, sustainable finance solutions, payments & cash management and trade and treasury services. TMT is a priority sector for ING with ~80 dedicated professionals globally serving businesses and shareholders across the value chain.
Complex business challenges require an integrated response across different markets, sectors and areas of law. Baker McKenzie provides seamless advice, underpinned by deep practice and sector expertise, as well as first-rate local market knowledge. Across more than 70 offices globally, Baker McKenzie works alongside our clients to deliver solutions for a connected world.
In a world of constant evolution, Ardian stands out for its ability to anticipate, adapt, and turn challenges into opportunities. As a global, diversified private markets firm with 20 offices and more than 350 investment professionals worldwide, we provide investment and customized solutions that reflect new economic dynamics and help our clients remain resilient in a changing world.
We deliver multi-local expertise and long-term performance for our investors and partners as well as shared value for the broader society. Since Ardian’s inception in 1996, our pioneering approach to diversification and our ability to offer tailor-made solutions at scale have remained the heart of our strategy.
Through commitment, knowledge and technology, we bring lasting value to our companies and contribute positively to the whole industry.
Ardian currently manages or advises $192bn for more than 1,860 clients worldwide across Private Equity, Real Assets, and Credit.
Ardian. Mastering change for lasting value.
Societe Generale is a top tier European Bank with around 119,000 employees serving more than 26 million clients in 62 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 long-lasting 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
The Group runs three complementary sets of businesses, embedding ESG offerings for all its clients: • French Retail, Private Banking and Insurance, Global Banking and Investor Solutions, Mobility, International Retail Banking and Financial Services.
Committed to building together with its clients a better and sustainable future, Societe Generale aims to be a leading partner in the environmental transition and sustainability overall. The Group is included in the principal socially responsible investment indices: DJSI (Europe), FTSE4Good (Global and Europe), Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Refinitiv Diversity and Inclusion Index, Euronext Vigeo (Europe and Eurozone), STOXX Global ESG Leaders indexes, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index (World and Europe).
FTI Consulting is the leading global expert firm for organizations facing crisis and transformation.
Each practice area of FTI Consulting includes leading experts defined by their depth of knowledge and track record of delivering client value when it’s all at stake.
Collectively, FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle — from proactive transformational opportunities to providing rapid responses to unexpected crises and transformational counsel in dynamic environments.
I Squared Capital is a leading global infrastructure investor managing $50 billion in assets. We build and scale essential infrastructure businesses that deliver critical services to millions of people worldwide. The I Squared portfolio includes over 96 companies operating in more than 70 countries and spanning sectors such as energy, utilities, digital infrastructure, transport, environmental and social infrastructure. Headquartered in Miami, its team of over 300 professionals is based across offices in Abu Dhabi, London, Munich, New Delhi, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Taipei. Learn more at www.isquaredcapital.com.
LBBW is committed to banking the future, investing in the digital transformation that connects and empowers communities—building the foundations for a more innovative and connected world.
At LBBW, we’re proud to be Germany’s premier medium-sized universal bank, the second largest by assets and a dedicated workforce of over 10,000 employees.
Our Infrastructure & Transportation Finance division, powered by 50+ experts in Stuttgart, Leipzig, London, and New York, is a driving force behind Core and Core+ infrastructure projects, fueling transformative growth across the globe.
We are a global law firm committed to creating advantage for our clients. We combine legal and commercial intelligence and collaborate with our clients as one global team to grow, transform, protect and defend their businesses. Operating as a single, fully-integrated global partnership we provide forward-thinking insights and tech-enabled solutions in the sectors and markets that matter most to our clients. Our culture of collaboration and commitment to rigorous and ethical standards, ensures consistent, high-quality service worldwide.
Cartesian is a specialist consulting firm in the telecoms, media, and technology sector. For over 35 years we have advised clients worldwide in strategy development and assisted them in execution against their goals. Our unique portfolio of consulting services and managed solutions are tailored to the specific challenges faced by executives in these fast-moving industries. Combining strategic thinking, robust analytics, and practical experience, Cartesian delivers superior results.
Valuation & Advisory’s Data Centers & Life Science experts are among the most experienced in the industry, with unmatched insight into the operational, mechanical, financial and regulatory considerations that impact data centers and life science facilities. We serve our clients globally—not only as appraisers, but as advisors—offering consultative, innovative solutions to help our clients manage their data centers and related assets.
Our team advises institutional investors, large pension funds, private equity funds, Fortune 500 companies, sovereign wealth companies, cloud companies and global IT conglomerates on investments related to the diverse array of data center and mission critical facilities.
The Data Centers & Life Science team offers a breadth of expertise in all related property types, throughout the North American, APAC and EMEA regions, including:
- Powered Shell Data Centers
- Turnkey Data Centers
- Colocation Facilities
- Carrier Hotels
- Switching/Networking Facilities
- Mission Critical Facilities
- Mission Critical Tech Office
- Life Science
- Clean Room Laboratories
