Kirkland & Ellis is advising Macquarie Asset Management on the agreement to enter into a strategic real estate partnership with NTT’s wholesale facilities across Europe and North America. NTT is one of the world’s largest data centre operators, with over 1,300 MWs of data centre capacity today, including a large development pipeline of a 25 per cent increase in capacity across more than 20 countries and regions globally. This strategic real estate partnership will give Macquarie Asset Management the opportunity to invest real estate capital alongside NTT to support its expansion in Europe and North America. Read Macquarie's press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Matthew Elliott, Celyn Evans, James Hunn and Tom McCarthy and associate Shaun Chung; debt finance partner Rohit Chaudhry; and investment funds partner Erica Berthou.