Latham & Watkins Advises Funds Managed by Apollo on Acquisition and Financing of Pan-European Colocation Data Center Platform

Latham & Watkins LLP has advised Apollo-managed infrastructure funds on the acquisition and financing of the European colocation business of STACK Infrastructure from funds managed by Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Advisors LLC in a carve-out transaction. Further information is available in the Apollo press release.

The Latham team was co-led by corporate partners John Guccione and Alexander Stefan Rieger on the acquisition, and finance partner Conrad Andersen on the debt financing. The Latham team also included Frankfurt corporate associates Johannes Groß and Sonja Hensch, and London corporate associates Alice Drayton and Cyrus Fung; London finance partner Michaela Schmiederova, with associates Evan Whyte and Isobel Moffatt. Advice was also provided by Frankfurt corporate partners Otto von Gruben and Christina Mann, and Milan corporate partner Giorgia Lugli, with associate Mattia Siena; and by Milan finance partner Alessia De Coppi, with associates Nicola Dall'Acqua and Nicola Nocerino. Advice was also provided on regulatory matters by Milan partner Cesare Milani, with associate Edoardo Cassinelli; on data protection matters by London associate Komal Shema; and on tax matters by London partner Helen Lethaby, with associates Aaron Bradley and Abigail Abbott.