James Johnson
Biography
Overview
James Johnson is a partner in our global Digital Infrastructure and Real Estate industry groups based in London.
James has a particular focus on data centres and advises developers, service providers and occupiers in relation to this highly specialised asset class.
Experience
Multiple confidential mandates across the Nordics, EMEA, APAC and the Americas acting for sponsors, developers and operators with respect to hyperscale datacenter developments, including Europe’s largest developments in France, Germany and the UK.
Representation of Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 7 on its purchase of a significant minority stake in Virtus Data Centres group from ST Telemedia (a portfolio company of Temasek). The Virtus Data Centres Group builds and operates data centres in England and is expanding into Europe.
Representation of Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, a private infrastructure investment platform within Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM), on an exclusivity agreement to partner with Altice France to establish the first nationwide independent colocation provider in France through the acquisition of a 70 percent majority stake in UltraEdge, a newly established data center company.
Representation of Credit Suisse on the cross border sale and leaseback of critical data center facilities in both London and Singapore to Iron Mountain.
Representation of Citibank on the sale and leaseback of Frankfurt Data Center, the first sale and leaseback of its kind relating to its Western European data center campus.
Representation of Digital Realty in relation the acquisition of eight high quality, carrier-neutral data centres across Europe in a deal worth in excess of US$874 million.
Representation of Digital Realty in relation to the sale of its Paris operating business and data centre for approximately US$211 million to Equinix.
Representation of IFC in relation to a confidential mandate relevant to the regulatory framework of an emerging data centre market.
