Data Centers

Aligned Data Centers in a $2.58 billion credit facility to support the continued expansion of its U.S. data center portfolio

Goldman Sachs in its acquisition of QScale, a leading Canadian owner and operator of next-generation, AI-ready data centers

Lender in the $1.5 billion financing of a power generation facility which will supply power to large-scale data center facilities

Global Infrastructure Partners as a joint venture partner in the consortium of investors (including AI Infrastructure Partnership and MGX) that have agreed to acquire Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie for approximately $40 billion

Aligned Data Centers and its sponsor Macquarie Asset Management in its acquisition of ODATA, a data center service provider offering scalable, reliable, and flexible IT infrastructure in Latin America, including the $2.25+ billion project financing for the purposes of financing the acquisition (IJGlobal Investor Digital Infrastructure Deal of the Year, Latin America, 2025)

Talen Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: TLN) on its 1,920 MW power purchase agreement and associated arrangements with Amazon Web Services to provide carbon-free energy from Talen’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant to support AMZN’s announced $20 plus billion dollar data center build out in Pennsylvania

Major power and data center developer in its equipment financing from Keystone National Group, with an initial commitment of $120,000,000, to procure long lead high voltage assets to support the buildout of its first 2.3GW of power infrastructure

Major power and data center developer in a $500 million asset-based secured term loan in connections with its acquisition of three F-class gas turbines from Siemens Energy and its continued development of its 11-gigawatt energy campus

Underwriters to a major power and data center developer in its $784 million initial public offering of common stock

Global Infrastructure Partners, a part of BlackRock, in its joint venture with ACS Group, a Spanish construction company, to develop and operate a global data center platform

Proprietary equipment supplier in a joint venture with a private equity sponsor for the lease financing of up to $10-billion of cutting-edge data center power and cooling equipment, under lease arrangements with multiple hyperscale data center customers (ongoing)

Goldman Sachs in the sale of its interests in Elea Digital Infraestrutura, a Brazilian interconnected platform of edge data centers, to affiliates of I Squared Capital

Fidelis in the sale of its portfolio company AIPCorp and its Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia to Nscale; Monarch is the United States’ first state-certified AI microgrid with a power runway scalable to over 8GW (pending)

Generate Capital in the $112 million financing of large-scale data center facilities in Texas

Accelerate Infrastructure in the acquisition and subsequent leaseback of undeveloped property from a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, cloud, and interconnection services

Scala Data Centers in connection with a project financing of up to $254 million for the development and construction of a portfolio of 3 data centers in Chile: a 5MW data center in Curauma, a 12MW data center in Lampa and a 9MW data center in Huechuraba, which service hyperscale clients (2024 IJGlobal Digital Infrastructure Deal of the Year)

Aligned Data Centers (ATL) PropCo, LLC and Aligned Data Centers (ORD) DevCo, LLC, data center companies, in a $8.55 billion syndicated asset-based term loan and revolving credit facility

New Era Energy & Digital, Inc., a developer and operator of digital infrastructure and integrated power assets in the Permian Basin, (i) in its $115 million public offering of common stock and (ii) in a $290 million senior secured multi draw term loan

An EnCap Transition Fund portfolio company in a senior secured revolving credit facility in connection with its financing of data center development and renewable energy generation and storage capabilities

Data Foundry, Inc., a carrier-neutral colocation and data center provider, in its $420 million sale to Switch, Inc.

Vantage Data Center on the sale of its subsidiary Etix Everywhere Borealis, the owner and operator of two sustainable blockchain mining, crypto-mining and high performance computing data center facilities in Blönduós and Fitjar, Iceland, powered by renewable energy, to Vauban Infrastructure Partners

Stream U.S. Data Centers in the acquisition of approximately 135 acres in San Antonio, Texas for the construction and development of a data center facility

Stream Data Centers in the acquisition and assemblage of 9 parcels totaling more than 308 acres for the development of a multi-phase data center campus consisting of more than 1.3 million square feet across nine buildings with development expected to commence in 2026

Placement agent in connection with a major power and data center developer’s $101 million convertible preferred units

IFM Investors in the formation of joint venture with DigitalBridge to acquire Switch, a global technology infrastructure company focused on ultra-advanced data centers, in an $11 billion take-private transaction Pacifico Energy as project counsel for the project development and financing of the GW Ranch project, a behind-the-meter power generation facility for data centers in Texas permitted for up to 7.65 GW of power generation

Integra Mission Critical in the engineering, procurement and construction of a proposed 1GW data center, including co-located power and cooling infrastructure, in North Texas (ongoing)

Swiss Life Asset Management and EDF Invest in the $1.2 billion acquisition of a 27% interest in DataBank, the largest edge infrastructure operator in the U.S.

Sailfish Investors in the 80-acre land acquisition in Hood County, Texas and related power generation facility matters in connection with a data center development

Forge Growth Infrastructure in lease arrangements with hyperscale customers for the deployment of mobile gas turbine generation units as a bridging power solution

DigitalBridge on its joint venture with Brookfield Infrastructure for the purpose of acquiring a 51% ownership stake in GD Towers, Germany’s largest tower company, valuing the company at €17.5 billion

DigitalBridge in connection with its acquisition of a controlling stake in Vertical Bridge, the largest private owner and operator of wireless communications infrastructure in the U.S.

DigitalBridge in its lead investment of £295 million in Netomnia, a provider of full fibre broadband infrastructure, and internet service provider YouFibre

USMatrix, a provider of facilities-based networks and datacenters, in the sale of certain subsidiaries owning Tier 3 mission-critical data centers in Brazil to SBA Communications

DigitalBridge on the acquisition of Pacifico Cable SpA (d/b/a Mundo Pacifico), a fiber-to-the-home business in Chile, from funds and investment vehicles managed by Linzor Capital Partners and Teras Capital Spain

Andean Telecom Partners on the acquisition of “BTS Towers”, an independent telecommunication tower infrastructure business headquartered in Switzerland with sites in Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru

The Blackstone Group in its leveraged buyout for the acquisition of Sabre Industries, Inc., an electrical equipment company from the Jordan Company

ARCOS, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company and leader in cloud-based technology for utilities, in its acquisition of Treverity, a software solutions provider for U.S. electricity and natural gas distribution utilities

BlackRock portfolio company, Centric Fiber Holdco, LLC, a residential and commercial fiber optic provider in Texas, in a syndicated $230 million loan consisting of a $20 million revolving credit facility and a $210 multi-draw term loan

An African tower company on a ground-breaking joint venture with two mobile network operators in Tanzania and the subsequent flip-up by one such mobile network operator into shares of the holding company 

Tampnet AS its acquisition of Broadpoint, a provider of offshore communications in the Gulf of Mexico and in a long-term strategic roaming agreement with a leading telecom carrier

Highline on the acquisition of 8,000 mobile outdoor telecommunication towers in Brazil from Oi S.A. for R$1.6bn (approx. US$ 310m)

Helios Towers Africa in the acquisition of Vodacom Tanzania Public Limited Company’s shares in Helios Towers Tanzania and Vodacom’s entire participation in an unsecured shareholder loan facility

Apollo Global Management in its equity investment in Infrastructure Networks, a provider of private broadband wireless LTE solutions

EQT Infrastructure in the sale of Tampnet, owner and operator of the world’s largest offshore fiber-backed communication infrastructure network, to 3i Infrastructure and ATP

Helios Towers in its $60 million acquisition of a controlling interest in SA Towers, a South African tower company

Accelerate Investment Partners, LLC in a corporate restructuring of Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities, LLC, an affiliate of Accelerate, in connection with a $630 million upsize of capital commitments by management, CBRE AIO Infra Holdings Inc. and CBRE Musselshell Infrastructure Investments, LP