Freshfields Advised Colt Data Centre Services on its Joint Venture with ESR to Develop a New Osaka Data Centre

Freshfields Advised Colt Data Centre Services on its Joint Venture with ESR to Develop a New Osaka Data Centre

Global law firm Freshfields advised Colt Data Centre Services (“Colt DCS”) on a joint venture with ESR to develop the first phase of a 130 MW hyperscale data centre site in Osaka, Japan. The first phase, comprising 65 MW, will be designed and built by the ESR–Colt DCS joint venture and operated by Colt DCS.

Colt DCS is global provider of hyperscale, AI and large enterprise data centre solutions while ESR is an Asia-Pacific focused real asset owner and manager. The partnership brings together Colt DCS’ proven operational excellence and over 25 years of development experience in Japan with ESR’s strong in-market development expertise and supply chain partnerships to provide high-quality data centre solutions for customers.

Regulatory advice was provided by Kaori Yamada (Partner), Laurent Bougard (Counsel) and Hitoshi Nakajima (Associate). Tax advice was provided by Peter Clements (Partner) and Claude Stansbury (Partner) and Melissa Pear (Senior Associate). IP and data privacy advice was provided by Harshavardan Ganesan (Associate).

The Freshfields team that advised on the transaction included Tomoko Nakajima (Partner) and Simon Weller (Partner), Daniel Boyle (Counsel), Junya Suzuki (Senior Associate) and Kevin Fan (Associate).

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