Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure private equity firm, announced the $3.0bn equity recapitalization of its portfolio company Cologix, a retail colocation provider focused on the enterprise data center segment.

Cologix is being sold by Stonepeak’s older fund vintage, Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund II, and co-investors (including Mubadala), to new Stonepeak-managed vehicles comprising both existing and new third-party investors. For example, Madison International Realty, a commercial real estate fund manager, is investing in the recapitalization of Cologix.

Notably, this Stonepeak-led equity recapitalization closely follows Cologix streamlining its debt structure by issuing $1.1bn in securitized notes, through a previously announced data center securitization.

Finally, the equity recapitalization transaction is expected to close in Q1 2022.

Cologix – Overview

Cologix operates or has under development 40 data centers located in 11 markets of the United States and Canada:

Cologix Data Center Portfolio Map
  • United States: Ashburn (1), Columbus (4), Dallas (3), Jacksonville (2), Lakeland (1), Minneapolis (4), New Jersey (4), Silicon Valley / Santa Clara (1)
  • Canada: Montreal (11), Toronto (4), Vancouver (4)

Across this portfolio, Cologix offers access to 600+ networks, 300+ cloud providers, and 29 public cloud on-ramps at its facilities.

Customers

Cologix’s data center portfolio is currently occupied by 1.6k+ customers. For example, these customers include cloud service providers, carriers, financial services institutions, and large enterprises.

Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund II – Prior Capitalization of Cologix

Stonepeak Infrastructure’s $3.5bn Fund II acquired a majority stake in Cologix, in March of 2017, following an auction process. Subsequently, in January 2020, Mubadala Investment Company, an Abu Dhabi-based investment firm, co-invested $500m of equity into the company.

Overall, Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund II has committed $631m of equity to Cologix, while the total equity commitment, which incorporates all co-investors, amounts to $1.2bn of equity. This equity capital has been funding the company’s footprint expansion through both organic and inorganic initiatives, including:

Additionally, in June 2021, Cologix made a combination of inorganic and organic expansions in Vancouver and Toronto, Canada.

Transaction Advisors – Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, Fund II

Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners’ financial advisor was Goldman Sachs. Additionally, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners’ legal advisor was Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund II’s financial advisor was RBC Capital Markets, who will run a market check process.

Mary Zhang covers Data Centers for Dgtl Infra, including Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX), Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), CyrusOne, CoreSite Realty, QTS Realty, Switch Inc, Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), Cyxtera (NASDAQ: CYXT), and many more. Within Data Centers, Mary focuses on the sub-sectors of hyperscale, enterprise / colocation, cloud service providers, and edge computing. Mary has over 5 years of experience in research and writing for Data Centers.

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