Hosted by Signal Strength Advisors, LLC

M&A activity continues to play a major role in shaping the digital infrastructure landscape. From towers and fiber to carrier networks and data centers, consolidation and capital deployment are redefining how platforms grow and compete.

In this webinar, Clayton Funk will provide a high-level look at the forces driving transaction activity across the sector. We’ll discuss how sub-sector specialists are consolidating fragmented markets, how investor interest is evolving, and what it means as larger global asset managers increasingly enter the space.

This session will offer practical insight into where capital is flowing today, how the investor profile is changing, and what these trends may signal for the future of digital infrastructure.

Clayton Funk

Founder & CEO, Signal Strength Advisors

Clayton is the Founder and CEO of Signal Strength Advisors.

Previously, Clayton was a Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey, a global investment banking firm. Prior to its acquisition by Houlihan Lokey in 2020, Clayton was a partner at MVP Capital, an independent advisory firm that provided a range of advisory services to clients in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector. Prior to joining MVP Capital in late 2004, Clayton started his investment banking career at Nations Media Partners, a Kansas City-based investment banking firm specializing in various areas of telecommunications, media, and publishing.

Over his career Clayton has closed or led teams that have closed more than 200 deals, including M&A, sale-leasebacks, and private debt and equity capital placements totaling more than $5.0 billion in value.

Clayton’s transaction experience includes representing multiple private-equity-backed tower companies in divestitures, negotiating sale-leasebacks for wireless carriers and publicly traded broadcasters, and raising capital for tower developers and in-building wireless providers.

Clayton regularly moderates or participates on panels at several state-level, regional, and national conferences on the topic of shared digital infrastructure, specifically wireless towers, distributed antenna companies, telecom leasehold interests, and small cells.

Clayton graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Communications from Washburn University and has been honored as an Alumni Fellow.

In his free time, Clayton travels frequently to see his two kids at Division I colleges with amazing football gameday experiences, spends every Fall trying to win yet another fantasy football title in his 30+ year old league comprised of long-time friends, has a high double-digit handicap golf game that hasn’t improved since high school, and enjoys downtime on the beach in Florida