Simpson Thacher advised Brookfield Asset Management in its equity financing investment in 5C Group through its Infrastructure Structured Solutions strategy, alongside affiliated entities. This capital will accelerate the development of 5C’s state-of-the-art data centers and scalable AI infrastructure across North America, addressing the rapidly growing demand for AI compute capacity and digital infrastructure.
Based in Montreal, Canada, 5C is a next-generation AI infrastructure and data center solutions provider which designs, develops and operates advanced data centers and AI compute infrastructure purpose-built at scale for AI training, fine-tuning and inference workloads.
Brookfield Asset Management is a leading global alternative asset manager, headquartered in New York, with over $1 trillion of assets under management across renewable power and transition, infrastructure, private equity, real estate and credit.
The Simpson Thacher team was led by Ryan Bekkerus, David Teh and Gabriel Silva and included Emma Brown, Harrison Gordon and John Hotes (Alternative Capital and Private Credit); and Amy Beller, Ned Simpson and Andrew Young (Corporate).