Akin Advised Funds Managed by Blue Owl’s Digital Infrastructure Strategy on a Majority Investment in Gigabit Fiber
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(Dallas and Fort Worth) – Akin advised funds managed by Blue Owl’s Digital Infrastructure Strategy on a majority investment in Gigabit Fiber, a dark and lit fiber optic communications infrastructure provider based in Dallas, Texas. The investment from Blue Owl will fund accelerated growth by Gigabit Fiber to address increasing demand for fiber connectivity across hyperscale data centers and other use cases driven by AI and cloud.
The Akin team was led by mergers and acquisitions partner Eric Williams and included corporate counsel Penelope Shumway and associate Kathryn Faulk. Marc Epstein, the real estate partner on the deal, assisted in the transaction.
The wider Akin team included:
- telecom, media & technology partners Sean Conway and Steve Rowings and associate Sharanya Sriram,
- tax partner Julia Pashin and counsel Aaron Vera,
- labor & employment partner Lauren Leyden, counsel Alex Lau and associate Jeremy Gerstenhaber,
- executive compensation & employee benefits partner Stephanie Bollheimer and counsel Alexandra Ritschard,
- intellectual property partner David Lee,
- cybersecurity, privacy & data protection senior counsel Michael Miller,
- international trade associate Amy Jicha,
- real estate associate Daniel Zozaya, and
- environmental & natural resources practice associate Brecken Petty.
For additional information on the transaction, please click here.
Akin is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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