Proskauer’s Digital Infrastructure Practice Group is a leading advisor to sponsors, investors, lenders, and operators of assets across the entire digital infrastructure ecosystem, including data centers, fiber, towers, small cells, GPU acquisitions and leases, and powered shells (behind the meter, utility connected and other power solutions).
Proskauer has been at the forefront of developments in this space for over a decade. Our industry understanding means we can recognize risks and identify opportunities, enabling us to forge connections, discover synergies, and provide actionable insights. This makes us an invaluable partner to our clients on their most important matters.
Since 2015, our team has advised on over $100 billion of transactions across the full lifecycle of the industry, including:
- Fund formation matters, including equity and credit funds, SMAs, and co-investment transactions
- M&A, investment and joint venture transactions, including asset and entity level acquisitions and dispositions
- Structured financings throughout the capital stack, including asset level/mezzanine/HoldCo financings, preferred equity and private placements
- Development and construction financings
- Capital recycling through stabilized YieldCo platforms
- GPU and other digital infrastructure equipment acquisitions and leases
- Lease and energy supply agreement underwriting expertise
Recent notable transactions that our Digital Infrastructure Practice Group has advised include:
- DigitalBridge Investment Management and its affiliates in connection with its recapitalization and related secondary of its interest in DataBank involving the sale of equity interests in excess of $2.0 billion; a $250m equity investment from TJC; and a $600m secondary share sale
- A middle market digital infrastructure sponsor in a joint venture to develop a 550MW data center located in the Southeastern United States
- A bulge bracket investment manager in connection with a multi-billion HoldCo financing of a hyperscale data center owner
- A leading digital infrastructure sponsor in connection with (i) the formation of a digital infrastructure credit fund and (ii) multi-billion GPU lease transactions with artificial intelligence companies
- Vantage Data Centers in connection with a $9.2 billion equity recapitalization of its business with DigitalBridge Investment Management and Silver Lake as lead anchor investors with participation from multiple global investors Data Center Deal of the Year, 2025 TMT Finance Awards USA
