Key deals

as part of the Blackstone consortium, on the $24 billion acquisition of leading Asia Pacific data centre operator, AirTrunk – the largest announced and completed deal of 2024.  

Advised on the $2.12 billion sale of its Australian data centre operations to ASX-listed alternative asset manager, HMC Capital Limited and the DigiCo Infrastructure REIT.

Advised on the $1.1 billion acquisition of Canberra Data Centres from Quadrant Private Equity.

Advised ING and Natixis as the lenders on the $400 million project financing to fund the construction of AirTrunk's initial flagship, hyper-scale data centers in Sydney and Melbourne.  

Advised on the global data centre provider's US$793.3 million acquisition of Metronode from Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. 

Advised on all aspects of securing approval to expand the datacentre at Macquarie Park including the conduct of land and environment court proceedings to appeal the VA.

Acted in connection with Stockland's $2 billion M Park innovation precinct, including a data centre. 

Advised on the establishment and ongoing operation of its GovDC Data Centre Reform Program, including the procurement of the build of two purpose-built data centres with Metronode (now Equinix). 

Advised the lenders to a bidder in connection with their proposed acquisition of the iSeek data centers business from Amber Infrastructure.