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Flitterman Chairs Panel at TMT Finance Conference

In the conference season, Nick Flitterman, Portland’s Head of Telecom’s, chaired a panel discussion amongst bankers and financing executives at TMT Finance’s annual M&A forum in London on 14th March. With representatives from BNP Paribas, Investec, the EBRD, Digital World Capital and Houlihan Lokey, Nick guided the panel through a lively discussion of topical financing […]

Portland Panelist at Telecom Finance 2013 Conference

On 30th January, demonstrating his continued thought leadership in the sector, Nick Flitterman, Portland’s Head of Telecoms, joined a distinguished panel of bankers and finance executives at Telecom Finance’s annual conference in London to discuss a number of topical issues and trends in financing telecom infrastructure projects today. The panel debated topics such as pressure […]

Portland advises on Welsh National Broadband project

In a team lead by Frauke Bialokoz, Portland Advisers has been advising the IT Procurement Team in the Welsh Government on the Next Generation Broadband for Wales (NGBW) project. Following a competitive process BT was awarded the Next Generation Broadband project for Wales in July 2012 , subject to European State Aid approvals. Following completion (scheduled […]

Portland Advisers demonstrates thought leadership in Next Generation Broadband

Portland Advisers has been appointed by the Fibre to the Home Council (Europe) to undertake a study into potential financing stimulus packages for Next Generation Broadband rollout on the basis of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). The results of this study will be presented by Jacek Krauze of Portland Advisers and Stefan Stanislawski of Ventura Team, our consortium […]

O3b Closes New $137m financing

On 31st October 2011, O3b Networks, advised by Portland Advisers and HSBC, achieved Financial Close on a $137m incremental financing round for the construction of four additional satellites that will boost both capacity and redundancy its MEO satellite constellation. Nick Flitterman, Portland’s Head of Telecoms and lead advisor to O3b said: “This is another great achievement for O3b and a […]

O3b Triple Award Winner

O3b Networks, the medium earth orbit satellite constellation providing fibre quality connectivity to the emerging markets, has picked up a  trio of awards from the financing community on the back of the highly innovative $770m project financing it completed in November 2010. On top of being awarded African Telecom Deal of the Year 2010 from both of the leading […]

O3b Networks reaches Financial Close

On 29th November 2010, O3b Networks, advised by Portland Advisers and HSBC, achieved Financial Close on a $1.2bn financing for its first 8 satellite…

Portland leads thinking on financing “Broadband for All”

Continuing to demonstrate that Portland Advisers is at the forefront of financing innovation, even in these difficult economic times,  Jacek Krauze, from our Telecoms team, recently had his article on Broadband Intervention published in the leading telecom sector journal, “Telecom Finance”. It can be found in the printed edition of the January 2010 issue, however we are pleased to […]

Flitterman chairs EU broadband conference

On 26th and 27th October 2009 in Berlin, the European Academy for Taxes, Economics & Law sponsored a prestigious event on “How to Finance Broadband Infrastructure”, with Portland’s Head of Telecoms, Nick Flitterman, chairing the first day of proceedings. Participants included the great and the good from three EC Directorates, from national and regional communications ministries and […]