Kirkland Advises Quinbrook on Strategic Recapitalization of Rowan Digital Infrastructure

Kirkland & Ellis advised Quinbrook, a specialist investment manager focused on delivering the infrastructure needed for the energy transition, in connection with a significant minority stake acquisition by funds affiliated with Blackstone in Quinbrook's portfolio company, Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a leading sustainable hyperscale data center developer. Blackstone's investment builds on Rowan's recent growth and will help drive its future development pipeline and support ongoing capacity expansion for hyperscale customers across existing and new sites in the U.S. The transaction marks an important milestone in Rowan's rapid evolution and bolsters the company's capacity to finance its growth pipeline.

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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Stephen Noh, Claire Campbell, Melissa Kalka, Jack Chadderdon, Alexandra David, J.P. Johanson, Maysa Alqaisi, Peter Hillary, Matias Joseph and Rhiannon Talbert; tax lawyers Stephen Butler, Leah Patrick, Michael Masri, Jonathan Diener and Giebien Na; investment funds lawyers Matt Nadworny, Laura Stake, Damian Jacobs, Mark Boyagi, Michael Brar and Casey Bond; debt finance lawyers Mary Kogut, Linda Zang, Shan Khan and Yigal Gross; energy regulatory lawyer Drew Stuyvenberg; real estate lawyers Kim McGrath, David Stanek and Adam Holmes; international trade and national security lawyers Luci Hague, Chad Crowell and Justin Campbell; environmental transactions lawyers Jim Dolphin and Caitlin Meagher-Kreisel; antitrust & competition lawyers Matthew Wheatley and Chris Brassfield; executive compensation lawyers Stephen Jacobson and Lany Villalobos; employment & labor lawyers Christie Alcala and Kaitlyn Hodgman; employee benefits lawyers Justin Coddington and Stew Dunoskovic; technology & IP transactions lawyers Matthew Lovell, Matthew Darch and Sarah Alpert; litigation lawyer Nick Niles; transaction liability lawyer Jessica Sicsu; and real assets lawyer Patrick Corrigan.