TORONTO and MONTREAL, June 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ – Amid hovering international demand for information storage and the processing of huge quantities of digital info, Fengate Asset Administration (“Fengate”) and eStruxture Knowledge Facilities (“eStruxture”) are happy to announce the completion of a groundbreaking $1.8 billion CAD transaction, setting a brand new customary for innovation and progress within the Canadian know-how sector.
The record-breaking funding is the only greatest to ever be made within the Canadian information middle sector and marks a pivotal second in eStruxture’s strategic progress. The funding will allow the enlargement of eStruxture’s portfolio of 15 state-of-the-art services nationwide to satisfy the demand for information middle capability.
Fengate, a number one North American various funding supervisor centered on infrastructure, personal fairness, and actual property methods, considerably elevated its fairness stake in eStruxture with the sector-shaping deal, constructing on the longstanding enterprise partnership. The agency’s funding in eStruxture contains newly-raised capital from a gaggle of institutional secondary traders co-led by Companions Group, a number one international personal markets agency, appearing on behalf of its shoppers, and Pantheon, a number one specialist international personal markets and secondary investor. Fengate is investing on behalf of Fengate Infrastructure Fund III, Fengate Infrastructure Fund IV and their affiliated entities, together with an funding by LiUNA’s Pension Fund of Central and Jap Canada.
Jonathan Wener and the Wener Household Workplace, together with Todd Coleman, Founder, President, and CEO of eStruxture, and the accompanying administration staff, can even reinvest a good portion of their holdings in eStruxture. This displays their robust confidence in its strategic imaginative and prescient and progress trajectory.
“For years, Fengate has had a front-row seat to the meteoric success of eStruxture, and that intimate perspective offers us full confidence to proceed our relationship by way of this subsequent thrilling progress part,” stated Lou Serafini Jr., President and Chief Government Officer at Fengate.
Todd Coleman commented on the partnership’s significance.
“This partnership with Fengate marks a transformative second for eStruxture. It not solely displays our shared dedication to advancing Canada’s digital panorama but additionally positions us to guide in delivering extremely scalable and sustainable digital infrastructure options that may empower companies throughout Canada and past.”
“eStruxture is paving the best way for Canada’s digital infrastructure sector,” stated George Theodoropoulos, Managing Accomplice at Fengate. “Digital is a sector focus for our infrastructure enterprise, and growing our funding in eStruxture is an thrilling and important step towards realizing our digital infrastructure technique.”
“The eStruxture staff is actually best-in-class. Eight years in the past, eStruxture was nothing however an concept. Immediately, we’re Canada’s main information middle platform. However all we’ve got completed, we consider the very best is but to return,” stated Jonathan Wener.
As main know-how gamers increase cloud areas throughout Canada, and AI and Machine Studying grow to be integral to enterprise operations, eStruxture is uniquely positioned to satisfy these wants with scalable and sustainable information middle options. This strategic funding will speed up eStruxture’s hyperscale progress, offering a launch pad for transformative enlargement and solidifying its management in Canada’s digital infrastructure market.
DH Capital, a division of Residents and Scotiabank served as eStruxture’s monetary advisors; Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg as authorized advisor; and KPMG as tax advisor. Campbell Lutyens served as Fengate’s unique monetary advisor; Kirkland & Ellis and Stikeman Elliot as authorized advisors; and Leo Berwick as tax advisor.
About Fengate
Fengate is a number one various funding supervisor centered on infrastructure, personal fairness and actual property methods, with $8 billion of capital commitments underneath administration. With places of work in Canada and the US, Fengate is among the most lively actual asset traders in North America. The agency has been investing in infrastructure since 2006, with a concentrate on mid-market greenfield and brownfield property within the transportation, social, vitality transition and digital sectors. Fengate leverages its long-standing relationships with design-builders, operators and builders to supply, develop and handle infrastructure investments throughout North America on behalf of its shoppers. The agency has a confirmed monitor file and trusted repute as an funding and growth companion throughout the sectors it operates in, and an infrastructure undertaking portfolio of greater than 45 property valued at over $20 billion. Fengate is dedicated to accountable funding and to bringing transparency and accountability to monitoring asset stage environmental, social and governance elements. Be taught extra at www.fengate.com.
About eStruxture Knowledge Facilities
eStruxture is the biggest Canadian information middle supplier with areas in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. Our options are designed to present you extra: extra areas, extra capability, extra connections that allow you to run fashionable, demanding enterprise functions, and supply your enterprise the management to quickly scale in response to unpredictable adjustments in enterprise processes.
Headquartered in Montreal, eStruxture offers entry to an ecosystem of just about 1,000 prospects that belief and depend upon our infrastructure and buyer help, together with carriers, cloud suppliers, media content material, monetary companies, and enterprise prospects. eStruxture affords colocation, bandwidth, safety and help companies to prospects throughout Canada in its provider and cloud-neutral services.
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