Latham Advises on Completed US$40 Billion Sale of Aligned Data Centers by Macquarie Asset Management

Macquarie Asset Management has announced the successful completion of the sale of Aligned Data Centers (Aligned) to a consortium of investors comprising the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), MGX, and BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners. The transaction follows Macquarie Asset Management's ownership of Aligned since 2018, during which time the company expanded from two operational facilities and 85 MW of critical capacity to a leading hyperscale data center platform with 51 campuses and more than 6.4 GW of operational and planned capacity across the Americas.

Latham & Watkins LLP represents Macquarie Asset Management in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by New York partner David Beller, with associates Daniel Weissman, Sofia Skara, Emma Giusto, and Rheem Brooks. Advice was provided on Latin America corporate/M&A matters by New York partner Tony Del Pino and Washington, D.C. partner Carlos Ardila; on executive compensation, employment, and benefits matters by New York partner Bradd Williamson, with associate Megan Ampe; on tax matters by Bay Area partner Katharine Moir and Los Angeles partner Ana O'Brien, with associates Arash Lotfi and Alice Chen; on sanctions and export controls matters by Washington, D.C. partner Andrew Galdes, with associate Matthew Gregory; on intellectual property matters by New York partner Jessica Cohen, with associate Ece Gonulal; on compliance matters by Washington, D.C. partner Joseph Bargnesi, with associate Faiza Hasan; on data privacy and cybersecurity matters by Houston partner Robert Brown, with associate Stuart Cobb; on US antitrust matters by Washington, D.C. partners Mandy Reeves and Caitlin Fitzpatrick, with associates Doug Tifft and Seamus Ronan; on HSR matters by Washington, D.C. partner Peter Todaro, with associate Ben Bouwman; on ex-US antitrust/FDI matters by Hamburg partner Jana Dammann de Chapto and Frankfurt partner Max Hauser, with associates Judith Jacop and Enno Mensching; on finance matters by associate Amrita Mukherjee; on investment funds matters by New York partner Matthew Chase, with associates Mario Richards, Benjamin Hoekstra, Victoria Cappucci, and Molly Nelson; on labor and employment matters by Chicago partner Nineveh Alkhas, with associate Elizabeth Duncan; on real estate matters by Chicago counsel Dustin Paige; and on environmental matters by New York counsel David Langer.