European Infrastructure Finance Summit

Fibre broadband’s role in digital transformation

Digital infrastructure is an obvious bright spot for investment. Supported by a digital policy agenda across Europe, the conditions are ripe for accelerated investment in an already hot corner of the market. Investors are positioning for a permanent change in the demand curve for data and consumption habits because of the pandemic. From an M&A perspective, valuations on fibre assets have skyrocketed. Yet the long-term outlook for regulation remains uncertain.

Neha Puri – Principal of Faculty’s Engineering and Built Environment business unit joins an expert panel where they will discuss:

• How has the crisis changed growth assumptions for urban and rural connectivity?
• How do lenders view credit risk when financing projects, given the uncertain regulatory outlooks?
• Where might carve-outs emerge as larger telecoms players reposition their portfolio, with many larger players already acquired?
• What sort of returns will investors receive, and will these justify the multiples spent?
• How will changing regulations towards fibre broadband as an essential service affect investment?