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F2i’s Board of Directors met today and appointed Massimiliano Cesare President of F2i replacing Leone Pattofatto, who resigned after taking over other functions and assignments. Massimiliano Cesare is a lawyer specialised in commercial law. He is currently President at Banca del Mezzogiorno. He also sits, inter alia, in Fincantieri’s board of directors.

F2i and Marguerite have reached an agreement for the purchase of 90% of the capital of KPNQWEST Italia (“KPNQWEST”) from the entrepreneur Marco Fiorentino. KPNQWEST supplies thousands of Italian firms with fibre optics connectivity, data centres and cloud computing services with very high reliability and performance. Those services are supplied by means of four proprietary data centres, located at the Caldera “Fibre Hub” in Milan, and a national broadband access network.

F2i and Marguerite have reached an agreement for the purchase of 90% of the capital of KPNQWEST Italia (“KPNQWEST”) from the entrepreneur Marco Fiorentino. KPNQWEST supplies thousands of Italian firms with fibre optics connectivity, data centres and cloud computing services with very high reliability and performance. Those services are supplied by means of four proprietary data centres, located at the Caldera “Fibre Hub” in Milan, and a national broadband access network.

F2i SGR has reached an agreement with Serenissima Partecipazioni SpA, a company controlled by the Abertis Group, for the purchase of 94.12% of the share capital of Infracom Italia SpA (“Infracom”), for an amount of EUR 57.8 million.

F2i SGR and Veronagest, have signed an agreement for the purchase by F2i's Secondo Fondo of one of Italy's main wind portfolio, comprised of 7 energy plants operating in Sicily and Calabria with aggregate installed capacity of 282 MW. Through this acquisition, F2i continues to grow in the renewal energy sector, with the objective of fostering the development of large specialised operators able to harness significant operational and financial efficiency. Indeed the Veronagest are additional to the other wind assets already held by Fondo F2i, which include 70% of the company E2i (approximately 600 MW installed and 165 MW under construction) and ownership of 16% of Alerion. With plant capacity in excess of 1000 MW, F2i has now become one of the main sector operators in the Italy.