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Data centres: What potential investors need to know
Event Details
Webinar
Global | July 01, 2021Data centre and digital infrastructure M&A deals closing in 2020 set a new record of $34.9 billion globally, eclipsing the previous 2017 record of $24.8 billion. 2021 is showing promise of being a strong year with $13.5 billion of deals currently being tracked and expected to complete in the next six months. – Knight Frank Data Centre Report
Over recent years there has been an increased investor appetite for digital infrastructure. With a growing governmental focus on improving connectivity, digital assets including data centres are crucial for supporting the growth of smart and sustainable cities; the shift towards remote working and the digitisation of company operations.
In this webinar, a multidisciplinary panel of data centre operators, investors and lenders from Europe and the US discuss the practicalities of investing in this asset class. Insights will include:
- What's happening in the data centre market and current trends
- How a data centre actually works
- What is important from an investor perspective when investing in data centres
- How to finance a data centre and what is important from a lenders' point of view
- Where the opportunities lie for investors
The webinar will be attended by representatives from investors, financiers, operators and offtakers and there will be opportunity for networking.
Our speakers will include:
- Vincent Bollaert, CEO France, Knight Frank
- Stephen Beard, Head of Data Centres, Knight Frank
- Sicco Boomsma, Managing Director, ING Wholesale Banking
- Christophe Strauven, SVP – Treasurer, Vantage Data Centres
- Matthew Eid-Holm, Vice President, Deutsche Bank Direct Lending
- Kristina Metzger, Senior Vice President & Leader, CBRE Data Center Capital Markets
- Emilie Caruelle, Legal Manager, Sipartech
- Camille Auger Dias, Senior Lawyer, Sipartech
- Joris Ravelli, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright (Amsterdam)
- Dr. Andrea Spellerberg, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright (Munich)
- Dr. Christoph Ritzer, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright (Frankfurt)
- David Barksdale, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright (Los Angeles)