Winners

Fiber Deal of the Year

Lumos

The acquisition by T-Mobile and EQT’s joint venture of Lumos. 

Advisors: Bank Street Group (EQT and Lumos), Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan (EQT), Citi (T-Mobile); Kirkland & Ellis, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (EQT and Lumos), Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (T-Mobile)

Datacenter Deal of the Year

Vantage Data Centers (USA & EMEA)

The US$9.2bn equity investment in Vantage Data Centers by DigitalBridge and Silver Lake. 

Advisors: JPMorgan, UBS (Sell Side); Linklaters (DigitalBridge & Vantage), Sterlington (Vantage), Latham & Watkins (Silver Lake), Proskauer (DigitalBridge), Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (DigitalBridge)

Financing Deal of the Year

CyrusOne - Warehouse

The US$9.7bn total financing, comprising a US$7.9bn warehouse facility, incremental to US$1.8bn RCF to primarily fund existing and future development projects in the US. 

Banks and Lenders: KKR Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley, TD Securities (Warehouse Lead Arrangers) | Wells Fargo (RCF Lead Arranger)

Advisors: Kirkland & Ellis (CyrusOne), Milbank (Lenders)

Towers Deal of the Year

Verizon Communications (USA)

Verizon’s sale of 6,339 telecom towers to Vertical Bridge for US$3.3bn. 

Advisors: JPMorgan (Sell Side), Centerview Partners (Buy Side), Jones Day (Sell Side), Greenberg Traurig, Mayer Brown, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (Buy Side)

Mid-Market Deal of the Year

CleanArc Data Centers (USA)

The securing of c.US$300m in anchor equity commitments from Snowhawk. 

Advisors: CBRE, TD Securities (Sell Side), PJT Partners (Buy Side), BakerHostetler (Sell Side), Kirkland & Ellis (Buy Side)