Latham & Watkins LLP has advised CVC DIF, the infrastructure business of leading global private markets manager CVC, in the acquisition of a significant majority stake in firstcolo Holding GmbH (firstcolo), a major Germany-based colocation data center operator, from Cube Infrastructure Managers. The investment will be made through DIF Value Add IV, a CVC DIF infrastructure fund, and is expected to close by the end of September 2026, subject to customary conditions.
The Latham team was led by infrastructure M&A partner Alexander Stefan Rieger and private equity partner Leif U. Schrader, with associates Joscha Müller, Johannes Groß, Janina Kirschner, Sonja Hensch, and Philipp Haubold. Advice was also provided on tax matters by partner Tobias Klass and counsel Daniel Hiemer; on infrastructure financing by partners Conrad Andersen and Alexandra Hagelüken, counsel Ralph Dräger, with associate Yan Ma, on antitrust matters by counsel Nils Bremer; on IP matters by partner Susan Kempe-Müller, with associate Karolin Borcherding; on data privacy matters by counsel Wolf-Tassilo Böhm, with associate Cenk Dennis Nickel; on real estate matters by counsel Sven Nickel; and on regulatory matters by counsel Joachim Grittmann, with associate Maxim Glusdak.
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