Hogan Lovells advises AtlasEdge on the acquisition of Datacenter One

AltasEdge is a joint venture between Liberty Global, one of the world’s leading broadband and communications companies, and DigitalBridge, a leading global investment firm dedicated to digital infrastructure.

The transaction comes at a time when the first wave of edge deployments is accelerating across Europe, with growing customer demand for digital infrastructure closer to the end user driven by enterprises and larger platforms.

The acquisition will strengthen AtlasEdge’s expansion across Germany, a key strategic data centre market. Datacenter One includes four state-of-the-art data centres in Stuttgart, Dusseldorf and Leverkusen, with additional sites under construction. The company is Germany’s leading independent data centre provider, serving more than 140 customers. The footprint of Datacenter One’s purpose-built facilities complement AtlasEdge’s existing operations in Berlin and Hamburg. AtlasEdge is now able to serve its customers in five regional markets in Germany with significant “ready-to-sell” capacity. 

Alexander Stefan Rieger added:

"We have rarely seen a data centre business attracting more interest in the market and we are proud to have assisted AtlasEdge in this successful transaction."

Hogan Lovells advised AtlasEdge on all legal aspects of this transaction.

Hogan Lovells team for AtlasEdge

Dr Alexander Stefan Rieger (Partner), Johannes Groß (Senior Associate), Pascal Wagenfuehr, Julian Schmidt, Camilla Froehlich (Associates) (all Infrastructure M&A, Frankfurt);

Sarah Shaw (Partner, Infrastructure M&A, London);

Dr Joerg Herwig (Partner), Jennifer Hofmann, Konstantin Weber (Associates) (all Private Equity, Frankfurt);

Bernhard Kuhn (Partner), Dr Hinrich Thieme (Partner), Markus Franken (Counsel), Judith Altenburg, Annika Lind (Associates) (all Real Estate, Frankfurt); 

Dr Mathias Schoenhaus (Partner, Tax, Dusseldorf);

Dr Carla Luh (Partner), Marco Weibrecht (Senior Associate) (both Infrastructure/ Finance, Hamburg);

Dr Marc Schweda (Partner), Dr. Stefan Kuester (Associate) (both Antitrust, Hamburg);

Prof Dr Fabian Pfuhl (Counsel), Anne Schmitt (Senior Associate) (both Intellectual Property, Frankfurt);

Dr Kerstin Neighbour (Partner), Paul Single, Sophia Gottschlich (Associates) (all Employment, Frankfurt)

Dr Sebastian Graeler (Counsel), Dr. Malte Kramer (Associate) (both Compliance/ Environmental, Dusseldorf);

Dr Thomas Frank (Senior Associate, Pensions, Munich);

Michael Jahn (Senior Associate, Compliance, Munich);

Alexander Koch (Partner), Kelly Quesada Vega (Associate) (both Corporate/M&A, Luxembourg);

Jan de Snaijer (Partner), Jamie Tang (Paralegal) (both M&A, Amsterdam).