Digital 9 Infrastructure to acquire 48% stake of Arqiva

Investment firm Digital 9 Infrastructure has agreed the terms of an acquisition of a 48% voting stake in UK network and communications infrastructure firm Arqiva Group.
It will cost Digital 9 £300 million and a £159 million ‘non-recourse vendor loan note’ to buy the shares from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board CPP Investments, which itself acquired the stake in Arqiva in 2009.
UK based Arqiva owns 1,450 broadcast transmission sites, 80 satellite ground stations w