Digital Infrastructure

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

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

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, aviation data center companies, in a $2.75 billion syndicated asset-based term loan and revolving credit facility

Aligned Data Centers in connection with a structured minority investment by SDC Capital Partners as part of the financing for the acquisition of Odata, a data center provider in Latin America

IFM Investors in the formation of a joint venture with DigitalBridge to acquire Switch, Inc. in a $11 billion take-private transaction

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.

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

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.

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

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

Goldman Sachs in a strategic, preferred equity investment in Elea Digital, a connected platform of edge data centers across Brazil

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

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

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

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.

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