DLA Piper has been advising Equinix, Inc., one of the world’s leading suppliers of data centre services, on the acquisition of the Kleyer 90 Carrier Hotel in Frankfurt. The seller is a private investor from Berlin. Through this transaction, Equinix is strengthening its market position in Frankfurt. It was only last year, with the support of DLA Piper, that the company acquired the German competitor ancotel GmbH, which is one of the leading European providers of network-neutral colocation and interconnection services.

Listed on the NASDAQ technology stock market in New York, Equinix Inc. operates International Business Exchange high-performance data centres for 38 strategically important markets in North and South America, Europe and the Asian-Pacific area. In excess of 4,000 companies, including cloud service providers, suppliers of digital contents and financial service providers, employ the services of more than 900 network operators in the Equinix data centres.

The team from DLA Piper under the management of partner Dr Christoph Papenheim (Corporate, Frankfurt) included partners Martin Heinsius (Tax, Frankfurt), Dr Jan Dreyer (Antitrust, Cologne), counsels Sven-Oliver Friedrich (Corporate, Frankfurt), Prof Dr Fabian Hinrichs (Real Estate, Frankfurt) and Prof Dr Falko Tappen (Tax, Frankfurt) as well as associates Andreas Weiss, Lin Liu and Kristin Vogt (all Corporate, Frankfurt).