Data centre financing – Driving convergence
Speakers
Types of Data Centres and Their Functions
Real Estate Investors Enter the Data Centre Space
Capital Flows, Securitisation, and the US-Europe Financing Gap
How Lenders Classify and Underwrite Data Centres
Obsolescence Risk and What Lenders Actually Finance
Winners and Losers in the Data Centre Investment Race
Energy Constraints, ESG, and the Green Data Centre Challenge
Style Drift, Systemic Risk, and Data Sovereignty
Tenant Concentration Risk and Hyperscaler Credit Quality
An audience member asks how lenders manage concentration risk when major hyperscalers such as Meta, Google, and Amazon dominate data centre tenancy. Tom Johnson explains that while single-tenant hyperscale deals carry concentration risk, the AAA credit ratings and strong balance sheets of these tenants make them desirable counterparties. He contrasts this with the more cautious approach required for sub-investment grade tenants, and the panel closes with final remarks.
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Jonathan is a co-founder of Conduit Real Estate, a UK and European debt and special situations capital advisory business established in 2020.
ConduitRE has worked with the majority of leading Private Equity funds, investment managers and capital providers has closed in excess of 6 billion Euros of deals since inception.
Jonathan previously worked for a London-based pan-European investment manager and was responsible for capital raising across their equity and debt strategies, as well as debt origination on behalf of a sovereign wealth fund, and earlier in his career was responsible for international clients and investment strategy at a leading global agency business.
Jonathan holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BSc from Johns Hopkins University.
Andrea is Head of Debt Finance. His role is focused on sourcing debt for new investments and restructuring existing loans.
Andrea brings with him a wealth of experience, most recently as an ED at CBRE Capital Advisors in the Structured Finance team. Prior to that he worked at Lloyds Bank, StormHarbour Securities and S&P.
Jim is a qualified accountant with over 30 years of experience in technology led infrastructure and construction businesses. He has been involved in large scale projects which delivered across North America, Europe the GCC and Asia Pacifics. Having been the CFO of a number of private equity owned and of full market listed groups he has significant experience of working with businesses to develop their financial maturity as they scale. Operating on a global scale he is alert to the local needs of businesses working across multiple jurisdictions and adept at supporting complex corporate, funding and operational structures.
Jim joined in early 2023 and looks after Pure’s financial control, FP&A, tax, treasury, non-construction procurement and leveraged funding activities.
Tom is a Director in RBC’s Real Estate Capital Partners (“RECP”) group, focussing on origination and execution of real estate finance transactions across the UK and Europe. RECP provides flexible capital solutions from RBC’s balance sheet for senior, mezzanine, loan-on-loan and whole loan transactions across the US, Europe, UK, and Australia.
Prior to joining RBC, Tom was part of LaSalle Investment Management’s Debt Investment and Special Situations group and previously spent time at a boutique advisory firm focussed on raising private capital for clients. Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Oxford and is a CFA Charterholder.
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