Global law firm Clifford Chance advised Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, on the first Data Centre ABS in EMEA. This is a landmark transaction in many ways, providing access to the capital markets for data centre operators in Europe as well as an innovative new securitisation asset class for the European securitisation market.

Partner Emma Matebalavu commented: “We are really thrilled to have partnered with Vantage together with Barclays and SMBC to deliver a truly groundbreaking new ABS structure in Europe. Clifford Chance’s sector expertise across digital infrastructure and real estate combined with our deep securitisation knowledge enabled us to help Vantage navigate structuring and legal challenges to bring this deal to market. Huge congratulations to the Vantage team on this achievement!”

Emma Matebalavu led the transaction together with Will Sutton, Jemma Dick, Fadzai Mandaza, Josh Dowdall, Marco Wong, Neelasha Nemani, Gunika Phalswal, Rob Donell and colleagues from our real estate, finance, securitisation and tax teams.