Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9) has secured lender approval for the sale of crown jewel Verne Global and obtained conditional consent for change of control from the lenders of the data centre platform’s Icelandic branch.
This leaves the receipt of merger control approval in Iceland and foreign direct investment approval in Finland as the remaining conditions for completing the sale to Ardian France, the trust said in a stock exchange notice today (4 March). In Finland, FDI approval is pending but the unconditional merger control approval has already been granted, while the phase II investigation being carried out by Iceland's anti-trust authority is ongoing. Digital 9 Infrastructure's Verne Global sale delayed by regulatory investigation D9 and the lenders of its £375m revolving credit facility ha...
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