M&A, IP, Patents The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) will make $435 million in loans to Ukraine’s newly merged Datagroup-Voila-lifecell. The telco is a merger between the Ukrainian mobile operator lifecell with pay TV and broadband provider Datagroup-Volia. The two were acquired and merged by a group of investors led by Xavier Niel’s investment firm NJJ Holdings, private equity firm Horizon Capital is also investing. UScellular has been making the case for its acquisition by T-Mobile to the FCC. The operator said that it has been losing wireless customers for years now and cannot afford the high cost of 5G midband spectrum. Ultimately, the firm says it is less able to invest…