Led · Equity · Jun 2025

Takanock provides integrated digital and power infrastructure solutions aimed at addressing power shortages that limit data center development in Tier I and II markets. Founded in 2023 and led by Kenneth Davies (founder of Google Energy and former head of Microsoft's renewable strategy globally), the company spent its inaugural year engineering a scalable approach to solve critical energy constraints for data centers. In June 2025 Takanock secured $500 million in capital commitments from ArcLight and DigitalBridge to accelerate development in constrained markets. Its offerings include flexible on-site power solutions that can serve as prime power until substations are completed and thereafter operate as wholesale grid resources, while sidestepping pipeline capacity constraints and firm pipeline contracts. Takanock emphasizes sustainability through highly dispatchable resources, best-available emission-control technologies, and closed-loop cooling to minimize environmental and water impacts and support greater integration of renewables. Since early 2024 the company has assembled a strategic U.S. portfolio and is executing digital power deployments under long-term contracts at late-stage projects in Northern Virginia and Phoenix; Houlihan Lokey served as exclusive financial advisor on the transaction.

Led · Debt Financing · Feb 2025

Surf Internet is a fiber-optic internet provider focused on delivering high-speed connectivity to rural and underserved areas in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana, the company also maintains offices in multiple Midwestern cities and employs more than 350 people. Surf’s core product is a growing fiber-to-the-home network designed to offer reliable, high-bandwidth service. Management plans to accelerate the build-out of this network, improve service reliability, and enhance customer experience across additional underserved communities in the Midwest. The firm has demonstrated strong operating performance and consistent subscriber growth, which has enabled access to the capital markets through its inaugural asset-backed securitization. Proceeds from recent financing will bolster financial flexibility and fund continued network expansion, positioning Surf as a scaled, super-regional fiber platform.

Led · Equity · Jan 2025

Vantage Data Centers builds and operates hyperscale data center campuses for the world’s leading AI and cloud providers. The company delivers capacity across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific and emphasizes speed and scale in deployment and operations. Vantage is accelerating its APAC expansion after securing a $1.6 billion investment to scale its regional platform, led by affiliates of GIC and ADIA with DigitalBridge participating. Planned growth includes the acquisition of Yondr Group’s 300MW+ Sedenak campus in Johor, Malaysia, which will be known as JHB1 and add significant hyperscale capacity. With the Johor addition, Vantage’s APAC operational and planned IT capacity will reach 1GW across Australia, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The company highlights sustainability features such as direct-to-chip liquid cooling and EDGE certification pursuit, and expects the investment and acquisition to close in Q4 2025. Vantage Data Centers builds and operates hyperscale data center campuses and provides capacity to cloud and AI customers. The company raised €640 million in euro-denominated securitized term notes plus €80 million in unfunded Variable Funding Notes in this transaction. Proceeds will refinance four fully leased German data centers (two in Offenbach/Frankfurt and two in Berlin) and support capital expenditures and broader corporate initiatives. Vantage said the refinancing is intended to accelerate its EMEA expansion and speed time to market to meet mounting AI and cloud demand. The notes have an anticipated five-year repayment date and carry ratings (Class A-2: A-; Class B: BBB) from Standard & Poor’s and Scope Ratings. Over the last year Vantage has raised €2.2 billion in new debt financing for its EMEA platform and previously completed the first-ever EMEA data center ABS in sterling. Vantage develops and operates hyperscale data center campuses across North America, EMEA and APAC, providing power, cooling, protection and connectivity for large cloud and enterprise customers. In 2024 the company expanded into new markets (including Ohio and Ireland), broke ground on six campuses, and opened 11 facilities. Planned and existing global capacity surpassed 2.6GW across 35 campuses in 14 countries and 21 markets. The company secured more than $13 billion in debt and equity investments in 2024 to fund its expansion. Vantage’s global headcount exceeded 1,700 employees at year end, a 32% increase year over year. The company is pursuing net zero carbon emissions by 2030 and reported a Total Recordable Incident Rate of 0.26 in 2024. Vantage powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises and develops and operates data centers across five continents including North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific. The company focuses on delivering reliable, efficient and sustainable hyperscale data center campuses in flexible environments that can scale with market demand. Vantage’s EMEA portfolio includes approximately 2.5GW of IT capacity that is operational or in development. The announced capital will expand the company’s investor base and capital sources to support delivery of additional high-quality, sustainable campuses. The company said GIC and MEAG will invest a combined €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion USD) into its EMEA data center platform. The transactions are expected to be finalized in the first quarter of 2025, subject to certain closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Vantage Data Centers is a leading global provider of hyperscale data centers. The company is expanding its Québec City Data Center Campus (QC2) with construction of a third facility currently underway by Pomerleau Inc. Once fully developed, the campus will total 925,000 square feet (86,000 square metres) and generate 86MW of combined IT capacity; the new facility will add 16MW of IT capacity. The expansion is intended to meet rising demand for cloud services across Québec and Eastern Canada and to serve Vantage's global top-tier customers. CDPQ committed USD 75 million (CAD 103 million) as part of senior financing to support the project, and the broader USD 130 million (CAD 179 million) credit facility was structured and underwritten by Societe Generale. The new facility is expected to be completed in Spring 2025.

Participated · Debt Financing · May 2024

CoreWeave operates an AI cloud platform providing high-performance, GPU-backed computing infrastructure to enterprise customers. The company is rapidly expanding its infrastructure footprint to meet accelerating demand for AI compute and has secured significant capital commitments to support that growth. Most recently it closed an $8.5 billion delayed draw term loan facility that is investment-grade rated and improves its cost of capital. CoreWeave reported roughly $28 billion in combined equity and debt financing commitments over the past year, reflecting strong institutional interest. The company plans to use the new financing to fulfill previously contracted cloud services and continue scaling its AI infrastructure.

Led · Series C · Oct 2022

Connectbase operates the Connected World platform, an operating system that enables service providers and partners to discover, quote, transact and manage connectivity services across more than 2.2 billion locations and 400+ network providers worldwide. By combining detailed location intelligence with automated quoting tools, the company helps carriers and enterprises speed up transactions and improve accuracy. The newly announced acquisition of Cloud Age adds telecom invoice automation and spend-management capabilities that serve over 1,700 vendors, extending Connectbase’s workflow from “quote to cash” through “procure to pay.” This integration is intended to deliver a single, federated digital fabric that supports ecosystem-led growth and future agentic or autonomous systems. The company plans to leverage Cloud Age’s expertise in billing data to offer providers actionable spend intelligence and profitability insights. Connectbase’s strategy centers on expanding its platform’s global reach, enhancing automation, and deepening its software and data assets. The recent growth investment from Equality Asset Management will finance the Cloud Age purchase and accelerate ongoing product innovation and international expansion.