Kirkland Advises Northampton Capital Partners on Investment in Blueprint Data Centers
Kirkland & Ellis represented Northampton Capital Partners, an alternative asset management firm focused on infrastructure investments in the middle market targeting the energy, digital and other critical infrastructure sectors, in its strategic investment in Blueprint Data Centers, an innovative developer of data centers designed with flexibility to support high-performance computing workloads. Supported by Northampton’s investment, Blueprint is actively developing two data center sites with 85MW of gross capacity in the Austin, Texas market that can be ready for service starting in 2026. The sites will benefit from committed utility power and support from local economic development corporations.
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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers John Kaercher, KJ Pedersen, Oscar Leija, William Mabry and Dakota Priest; real estate lawyers Katie Roddy and Al Stemp; tax lawyers Rodney Hill, Joe Tobias and Griffin Peeples; executive compensation lawyers Rob Fowler, Katherine Nemeth and Farrah Way; employment & labor lawyer Christie Alcala; and investment funds lawyers Matthew Nadworny, John Folkerth, Jonathan Williams, Jennifer Wang and Megan Bourassa; and energy regulatory lawyer Brooksany Barrowes.
