Gibson Dunn Advised ACS Group on Joint Venture with Global Infrastructure Partners to Develop and Operate Data Centers Worldwide

Gibson Dunn Advised ACS Group on Joint Venture with Global Infrastructure Partners to Develop and Operate Data Centers Worldwide

Gibson Dunn advised ACS Group on its joint venture with Global Infrastructure Partners to develop and operate a portfolio of data centers worldwide. The new data center development platform will consist of ACS’s existing 1.7 GW portfolio of data center assets under development in Europe, the U.S., and Australia — assets valued by the transaction at approximately €2 billion, consisting of a cash payment of approximately €1 billion, plus initial earn-outs of up to €1 billion, contingent on achieving predefined commercial milestones. An additional earn-out of up to €200 million may also be earned from additional pipeline projects currently under analysis.

The Gibson Dunn corporate team includes Tomer Pinkusiewicz (Partner), Daniel Alterbaum (Partner), Anita Girdhari (Partner) and Toren Murphy (Partner); Ruben Almaraz (Counsel) and Brennan Halloran (Associate), Maria Paula Baraya (Associate), and Gerald Kimani (Associate).

The Gibson Dunn team was led by Emily Naughton (Partner) of Whitney Smith (Counsel) and Lauren Traina (Associate) are advised on real estate; Tory Lauterbach (Partner) on energy regulatory aspects; Michael Cannon (Partner) on tax aspects; Ekaterina Napalkova (Partner) on benefits; Attila Borsos (Partner) on competition law and FDI aspects; and Stephenie Gosnell Handler (Partner) on CFIUS aspects.

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