Macfarlanes has advised Alchemy Investment Plan on the sale of its portfolio company, London-based fibre provider Geo Networks to Zayo Group, a US-based, international provider of bandwidth infrastructure.

Alchemy is a longstanding client of the firm and Macfarlanes acted on its original investment in Geo Networks in 2008.  Geo Networks owns and operates a high capacity fibre network in the UK, providing managed networks, dark fiber and co-location services to a variety of high-bandwidth sectors including media companies, service providers, financial services, data centres and gaming organisations.

The Macfarlanes team was led by corporate and M&A partner Simon Perry supported by solicitors Adam Campbell and Tom Rose.

Zayo Group was advised by Nick Tomlinson, Amar Madhani and Alex Lloyd of Gibson Dunn. Ed Harris, Leanne Moezi and Oliver Vallee of Hogan Lovells advised management.