Vantage Data Centers Acquires Campus in Johor, Malaysia
Simpson Thacher is representing Vantage Data Centers on its expansion to the Johor, Malaysia, market with the acquisition of Yondr Group’s 300 MW + hyperscale data center campus located in Sedenak Tech Park. The campus is one of the largest hyperscale data center campuses in Southeast Asia. Vantage has also secured a $1.6 billion investment from an affiliate of GIC, a global institutional investor, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). The investment from GIC and ADIA will support Vantage’s acquisition of the Johor campus, with additional capital earmarked for further growth of Vantage's APAC platform.
The Simpson team included Gabriel Silva, Ian Ho and Nelson Tai (M&A), Alvin Kwong, Mark Watson and Mounah Abdallah (Credit), Meredith Jones (Tax), and Ron Ben-Yehuda (IP).