FirstLight Acquires ColoSpace

Antin Infrastructure Partners Acquires FirstLight from Oak Hill Capital

February 21, 2018

Telecommunications

Antin Infrastructure Partners has entered into an agreement to acquire FirstLight, a fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure provider headquartered in Albany, New York, from Oak Hill Capital Partners IV. The acquisition, intended to accelerate FirstLight’s growth and enhance its service capabilities for enterprise and carrier customers across the Northeast, was expected to close in the second half of 2018; financial terms were not disclosed.

FirstLight Acquires PrimeLink

February 11, 2020

Telecommunications

FirstLight has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PrimeLink, a regional provider of voice and data services and a subsidiary of The Champlain Telephone Company. The deal expands FirstLight's fiber footprint across Upstate New York (including Plattsburgh, Glens Falls, Queensbury, Albany and the Lake Champlain corridor) and adds fiber capacity on a route into Montreal, Canada; financial terms were not disclosed and the transaction was expected to close in Q3 2020.

FirstLight Acquires BestWeb

June 3, 2020

Telecommunications

FirstLight, a fiber-optic network operator backed by Antin Infrastructure Partners, agreed to acquire BestWeb to deepen its fiber footprint across Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, adding approximately 170 route miles of fiber. The deal, announced June 3, 2020, was expected to close in Q4 2020 (and subsequently completed later that year) and expands FirstLight’s capability to serve K-12, enterprise and carrier customers in the lower Hudson Valley.

FirstLight Acquires TruePath Technologies

September 1, 2020

IT Services

FirstLight has completed its acquisition of TruePath Technologies, adding TruePath's network and enterprise monitoring capabilities to FirstLight's managed services portfolio. The deal, an add-on to FirstLight (which is PE-backed by Antin Infrastructure Partners), is intended to expand FirstLight's managed monitoring and enterprise monitoring offerings for its carrier and enterprise customers across the Northeast and mid‑Atlantic.

ColoHouse Acquires Lume Cloud

September 14, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

ColoHouse, a global colocation, cloud and managed services provider based in Miami, has acquired Lume Cloud, a managed cloud services provider that offers private cloud, edge data center and hybrid infrastructure solutions including the Cloud Anyware suite. The deal expands ColoHouse's private cloud, backup/recovery and security capabilities across its 24 locations and will keep Kyle Verzello as leader of the Lume Cloud product teams.

Lightpath to Acquire United Fiber & Data Assets

June 10, 2024

Telecommunications

Lightpath has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of United Fiber & Data; the deal is subject to regulatory approvals and expected to close in Q3 2024. The acquisition adds a geographically diverse, high-fiber-count 323-route mile long-haul network between New York City and Ashburn, VA, plus a 79-route mile metro network in NYC/NJ, expanding Lightpath's capacity into the Ashburn data center ecosystem and increasing Manhattan serviceable market by over 20%.