Kirkland Advises Blackstone-Backed AirTrunk on Strategic Partnership with HUMAIN

Kirkland & Ellis is representing Blackstone-backed AirTrunk, the leading data center platform in the Asia Pacific region, on an agreement with HUMAIN, a global artificial intelligence company based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia building end-to-end AI capabilities, to form a strategic partnership to build data centers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The initial project involves an approximately US$3 billion investment for a data center campus in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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The Kirkland team includes U.S. and UK-based corporate lawyers Rhett Van Syoc, Melissa Kalka, Greg Scott, Allan Kirk, Irfan Ahmed, Celyn Evans, Shaun Chung and Evan Chavez; Saudi-based corporate lawyers Kamran Bajwa, Noor Al-Fawzan, Osama Lone and Mohsin Iqbal; real estate lawyers Kevin Ehrhart, Tam Ho and Katie Roddy; debt finance lawyers Kim McGrath, Mary Kogut and James Boswell; intellectual property lawyers Andre Duminy and Matt Lovell; and tax lawyers Alexander Cox and Tomas McGrath.