Vodafone, Cellnex, Airtel Africa, Liberty Global, UBS, Hyperoptic, Morgan Stanley, Equinix, Kazakhtelecom, Societe Generale, CityFibre, KKR and VEON among the deal winners at TMT M&A Awards 2019

Vodafone, Cellnex, Airtel Africa, Liberty Global, UBS, Hyperoptic, Morgan Stanley, Equinix, Kazakhtelecom, Societe Generale, CityFibre, KKR and VEON among the deal winners at TMT M&A Awards 2019

TMT Finance, the leading TMT M&A and financing news and events provider, is proud to announce the winners of the annual TMT M&A Awards 2019 held on November 26. Winners from industry, private equity, investment banking and advisory included: Vodafone, Morgan Stanley, KKR, LionTree, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Millicom, CityFibre, Equinix, Worldpay, SAP, among others. 27 awards were presented on the night, including 14 for TMT Deals at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London St Paul's, on the first evening of the annual three-day TMT World Congress 2019. Winners in the 14 deal categories included:

Telecom M&A Deal of the Year - EMEA

Vodafone's acquisition of Liberty Global's Germany and CEE portfolio for E18.4bn Advised by LionTree, Goldman Sachs (Liberty); Robey Warshaw, UBS, Morgan Stanley (Vodafone) Telecom M&A Deal of the Year – Emerging Markets VEON's mandatory tender offer for the remaining shares in GTH for US$2.3bn Advised by Citi and LionTree (VEON)

TMT Deal of the Year – Africa

Berkshire Partners' acquisition of Teraco Data Environments from Permira Advised by Goldman Sachs, Torch Partners (Permira)

Telecom M&A Deal of the Year – Asia

Kazakhtelecom's acquisition of Kcell from Telia Company and Fintur Holdings for US$446m Advised by UBS (Telia)

Telecom M&A Deal of the Year – Americas

Millicom's acquisition of Telefonica's businesses in Nicaragua, Panama and Costa Rica for US$1.7bn Advised by Citi, Santander (Telefonica); Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley (Millicom)

Telecom Infra Deal of the Year – EMEA

OMERS Infrastructure, AXA IM – Real Assets and Allianz Capital Partners' acquisition of SFR FTTH for E1.8bn from Altice Europe Advised by Lazard (Altice); Barclays, Goldman Sachs (OMERS, AXA, Allianz) Mid-Cap

Telecom Deal of the Year – Europe

Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets' acquisition of KCOM from shareholders for £628m Advised by Barclays (Macquarie); Rothschild, Peel Hunt, Investec Bank (KCOM) TMT

Private Equity Deal of the Year -EMEA

KKR's acquisition of Axel Springer from shareholders for E2.9bn Advised by Goldman Sachs, Allen & Company, Lazard (Axel Springer); JP Morgan (KKR)

Telecom Infrastructure Financing Deal of the Year – EMEA

CityFibre's £1.12bn debt financing package to support its fibre roll-out investment plan Arranged by ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Bank plc, Natixis, NatWest, Santander and Société Générale

TMT Debt Financing Deal of the Year – EMEA

SAP's E7bn loan to finance the acquisition of software company Qualtrics Arranged by JP Morgan

Media M&A Deal of the Year – EMEA

KKR's acquisition of Axel Springer from shareholders for E2.9bn Advised by Goldman Sachs, Allen & Company (Axel Springer); JP Morgan (KKR)

TMT IPO of the Year – EMEA

Airtel Africa's listing on the London Stock Exchange, raising US$750m and valuing the company at US$3.9bn Advised by JP Morgan, Citi, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Standard Bank, Absa Datacentre

Deal of the Year - EMEA

Equinix's initial joint venture with GIC to develop and operate datacentres in Europe Advised by Citi (Equinix)

Tech M&A Deal of the Year – EMEA

Fidelity National Information Services' (FIS) acquisition of Worldpay for US$43bn Advised by Centerview Partners, Goldman Sachs (FIS); Credit Suisse (Worldpay)

To see the full list of winners across all 27 award categories, please go to.tmtfinance.com/awards

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