We’re delighted to share that AtlasEdge won Digital Infrastructure Deal of the Year at the recent TMT M&A Awards. Organised and hosted by TMT Finance, the awards celebrate the most successful dealmakers of 2021 from Europe and USA, and are determined by a dedicated judging panel consisting of some of the sector’s most influential figures.
The win is testament to the outstanding work of our shareholders, Liberty Global and DigitalBridge, as well as the entire AtlasEdge team in building a market-leading pan-European data centre portfolio consisting of 100 data centres across eleven countries in Europe, supporting more than 700 customers and providing connectivity to more than 50 different on-net carriers.
On a successful night, Liberty Global and DigitalBridge were also awarded the following:
- TMT Leader of the Year – Marc Ganzi, President & CEO, DigitalBridge
- Digital Infrastructure Investment Firm of the Year (Americas) – DigitalBridge
- Telecom M&A Deal of the Year (Europe) – The merger of Virgin Media O2 (Liberty Global and Telefonica)
- IPO of Vantage Towers on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange was also recognised as TMT IPO of the Year (Europe), which included a cornerstone investment by DigitalBridge (E500m)
About AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge is a leading European Edge data centre platform with operations across 12 countries. Our distributed data centre portfolio allows customers to plan and shape their technology and network infrastructure to meet the growing requirements for lower latency, higher performance and localized solutions. Established in 2021, AtlasEdge is backed by a joint investment from Liberty Global, a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications and an active investor in cutting-edge infrastructure, content, and technology ventures, and DigitalBridge, a leading global investment firm dedicated to digital infrastructure. Our portfolio includes data centres in growing markets across Europe, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Hamburg, London, Leeds, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Paris, Vienna, and Zurich. In February 2023, AtlasEdge successfully acquired Datacenter One, in Germany, which includes state-of-the-art data centres in Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, and Leverkusen.