Investment Manager Share Purchase

Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC

01 December 2023

 

1 December 2023

DIGITAL 9 INFRASTRUCTURE PLC

("DGI9", the "Company" or, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group")

Investment Manager Share Purchase

Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (ticker: DGI9), a leading investor in the infrastructure of the internet, announces that the Investment Manager has purchased 300,000 ordinary shares of no par value in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at an average price of 31.65 pence per share on 30 November 2023. This purchase of Management Shares was made by Perihelion One Limited ("Perihelion"), a company in the Triple Point Group. 

The Investment Manager, including senior members of the Digital Infrastructure team and partners now holds a total of 3,236,495 Ordinary Shares in the Company, representing approximately 0.37% of the total issued share capital.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT:

Triple Point Investment Management LLP (Investment Manager) Diego Massidda Ben Beaton Arnaud Jaguin	[phone]
J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Joint Corporate Broker) William Simmonds Jérémie Birnbaum	[phone]
Peel Hunt (Joint Corporate Broker) Luke Simpson Huw Jeremy	[phone]
FTI Consulting (Communications Adviser) Ed Berry Mitch Barltrop Maxime Lopes	[e-mail] [phone] [phone] [phone]

LEI : 213800OQLX64UNS38U92

About Digital 9 Infrastructure plc:

Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (DGI9) is an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 250, with the ticker DGI9. The Company invests in the infrastructure of the internet that underpins the world's digital economy: digital infrastructure.

The Investment Manager is Triple Point Investment Management LLP ("Triple Point") which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, with extensive experience in infrastructure, real estate, and private credit, while keeping ESG principles central to its business mission. Triple Point's Digital Infrastructure team has over $300 billion in digital infrastructure transaction experience and in-depth relationships across global tech and global telecoms companies.

The number 9 in Digital 9 Infrastructure comes from the UN Sustainable Development Goal 9, which focuses the fund on investments that increase connectivity globally and improve the sustainability of digital infrastructure. The assets DGI9 invests in typically comprise scalable platforms and technologies including (but not limited to) subsea fibre, data centres, terrestrial fibre and wireless networks.

Since IPO in March 2021, DGI9 has invested in the following data centres, subsea fibre and wireless network assets (other than Verne Global):

·    Aqua Comms, a leading owner and operator of 20,000km of the most modern subsea fibre systems - the backbone of the internet - with a customer base comprising global tech and global telecommunications carriers;

·    Arqiva, the only UK national terrestrial television and radio broadcasting network in the United Kingdom - providing data, network and communications services, as well as a national IoT connectivity platform;

·    Elio Networks (previously Host Ireland) a leading enterprise broadband provider that owns and operates Fixed Wireless Access networks;

·    EMIC-1, a partnership with Meta on a 10,000km fibre system from Europe to India;

·    SeaEdge UK1, a data centre and landing station for the North Sea Connect subsea cable, part of the North Atlantic Loop subsea network, improving connectivity between the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and North America;

The Company's Ordinary Shares were admitted to trading on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange on 31 March 2021. The Company's Ordinary Shares were admitted to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and to trading on the premium segment of the Main Market on 30 August 2022.

For more information on the Investment Manager please visit www.triplepoint.co.uk. For more information, please visit www.d9infrastructure.com.

 

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