Dentons advises KKR and GIP on $15bn acquisition and financing of CyrusOne

Dentons’ global team, including its offices in Chile, Colombia and Mexico, has assisted KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners in the acquisition and financing of CryrusOne

 Dentons’ global team, together with Kirkland & Ellis, advised global investment firm KKR and fund manager Global Infrastructure Partners in connection with the closing of the $15 billion acquisition of data centre operator CyrusOne, Inc. and the financing by a consortium of lenders led by Goldman Sachs.

Evan Z. Lazar, lead partner on the transaction, said: “We are pleased to have assembled our global team to quickly and efficiently assist KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners in this transaction. As the world’s largest law firm, Dentons is ideally positioned to support clients in investment transactions of this type.”

For his part, partner Perry V. Zizzi added: “We are delighted that Dentons’ multi-disciplinary teams on four continents were able to support global powerhouses KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners in completing this strategic acquisition and financing in a cutting-edge sector such as data centres.”

Partners Perry V. Zizzi and Stewart M. Middleman, along with Evan Z. Lazar, co-chair of Dentons’ Global Real Estate Group, led and coordinated the project’s cross-border team of more than 150 Dentons lawyers from 16 countries on four continents. The multi-competent team advised the client on Real Estate, Finance, Employment, Corporate, Energy, ESG, Environmental, IP, Telecoms, IT, Data Protection, Sanctions, Cybersecurity and Litigation matters in Europe, North America, Latin America and Singapore.

The team leaders from each country were: Bruna Gobbi (Brazil), Vivek Bakshi (Canada), José Manuel Larrain (Chile) (pictured left), Bernardo Cárdenas (Colombia) (pictured centre), Maxime Simonnet (France), Christoph Papenheim and René Dubois (Germany), Andrew Muckian (Ireland), Rogelio López-Velarde (Mexico) (pictured right), Pieter van Delden (Netherlands), Melanie Lim and Valerie Ong (Singapore), Itxaso López Diez (Spain), Rob Thompson and Alex Coulter (United Kingdom), and John Pietila (United States). Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek led the labour law team, while Ewa Rutkowska-Subocz led the multi-jurisdiction environmental law team.