"Macquarie Asset Management Sells Aligned Data Centers in Record $40 Billion Deal"

Latham & Watkins LLP represented Macquarie Asset Management in the sale of Aligned Data Centers to a consortium of investors, including the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), MGX, and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners. The transaction, valued at approximately US$40 billion, marks the largest deal to date in the global data center sector. Under Macquarie Asset Management’s ownership, Aligned Data Centers has grown significantly, expanding from two operational facilities in Dallas and Phoenix with 85 MW of critical capacity to a leading hyperscale data center specialist managing over 5 GW of capacity across 50 data centers in the United States, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Brazil, and Colombia. Notably, Aligned has achieved the first-ever green data center securitization and the first-ever sustainability-linked financing for a data center platform. The legal team from Latham & Watkins involved in the transaction includes: - **David Beller** (Partner, New York) - Corporate - **Jason Webber** (Partner, New York) - Corporate - **Daniel Weissman** (Associate, New York) - Corporate - **Sofia Skara** (Associate, New York) - Corporate - **Emma Giusto** (Associate, New York) - Corporate - **Rheem Brooks** (Associate, New York) - Corporate - **Tony Del Pino** (Partner, New York) - Latin America Corporate/M&A - **Carlos Ardila** (Partner, Washington, D.C.) - Latin America Corporate/M&A - **Bradd Williamson** (Partner, New York) - Executive Compensation, Employment, and Benefits - **Megan Ampe** (Associate, New York) - Executive Compensation, Employment, and Benefits - **Kayla Snyder** (Associate, New York) - Executive Compensation, Employment, and Benefits - **Katharine Moir** (Partner, Bay Area) - Tax - **Ana O'Brien** (Partner, Los Angeles) - Tax - **Arash Lotfi** (Associate, Bay Area) - Tax - **Alice Chen** (Associate, Los Angeles) - Tax - **Andrew Galdes** (Partner, Washington, D.C.) - Sanctions and Export Controls - **Matthew Gregory** (Associate, Washington, D.C.) - Sanctions and Export Controls - **Jessica Cohen** (Partner, New York) - Intellectual Property - **Ece Gonulal** (Associate, New York) - Intellectual Property - **Joseph Bargnesi** (Partner, Washington, D.C.) - Compliance - **Faiza Hasan** (Associate, Washington, D.C.) - Compliance - **Robert Brown** (Partner, Houston) - Data Privacy and Cybersecurity - **Stuart Cobb** (Associate, Houston) - Data Privacy and Cybersecurity - **Mandy Reeves** (Partner, Washington, D.C.) - US Antitrust - **Caitlin Fitzpatrick** (Partner, Washington, D.C.) - US Antitrust - **Doug Tifft** (Associate, Washington, D.C.) - US Antitrust - **Seamus Ronan** (Associate, Washington, D.C.) - US Antitrust - **Peter Todaro** (Partner, Washington, D.C.) - HSR Matters - **Ben Bouwman** (Associate, Washington, D.C.) - HSR Matters - **Jana Dammann de Chapto** (Partner, Hamburg) - Ex-US Antitrust/FDI - **Max Hauser** (Partner, Frankfurt) - Ex-US Antitrust/FDI - **Judith Jacop** (Associate, Hamburg) - Ex-US Antitrust/FDI - **Enno Mensching** (Associate, Hamburg) - Ex-US Antitrust/FDI - **Niklas Brüggemann** (Associate, Hamburg) - Ex-US Antitrust/FDI - **Helena Hofmann** (Associate, Hamburg) - Ex-US Antitrust/FDI - **Stephanie Teicher** (Partner, New York) - Finance - **Amrita Mukherjee** (Associate, New York) - Finance - **Matthew Chase** (Partner, New York) - Investment Funds - **Mario Richards** (Associate, New York) - Investment Funds - **Benjamin Hoekstra** (Associate, New York) - Investment Funds - **Victoria Cappucci** (Associate, New York) - Investment Funds - **Molly Nelson** (Associate, New York) - Investment Funds - **Nineveh Alkhas** (Partner, Chicago) - Labor and Employment - **Elizabeth Duncan** (Associate, Chicago) - Labor and Employment - **Dustin Paige** (Counsel, Chicago) - Real Estate - **David Langer** (Counsel, New York) - Environmental Matters

"Macquarie Asset Management Sells Aligned Data Centers in Record $40 Billion Deal"

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