Kirkland Advises GIC on Over $1 Billion Co-Investment with Equinix to Develop and Operate Hyperscale Data Centers in Japan

Kirkland & Ellis advised GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, on the over US$1 billion co-investment with Equinix in the form of a limited liability partnership to develop and operate xScale™ data centers in Japan. The three initial facilities in the joint venture – one in Osaka and two in Tokyo -- will serve the unique core workload deployment needs of a targeted group of hyperscale companies, including the world’s largest cloud service providers.

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The Kirkland team was led by transactional partners Matthew Elliott and Celyn Evans in London and Daniel Dusek and Mike Rackham in Hong Kong. The team was supported in London by transactional partner Annette Baillie; finance partner Kazik Michalski; tax partner Frixos Hatjantonas; technology & IP transactions partner Joanna Thomson; anti-trust partner Annie Herdman; and regulatory partner Michael Casey.