Stonebriar Commercial Finance (Stonebriar) announced the closing of a $200 million lease financing to a global data center operator. The lease is supported by assets consisting of new, high-performance servers, data storage systems, and other networking equipment located at lessee’s five primary US data centers. The assets will be dedicated to lessee’s Private Cloud segment, providing capacity to serve new customer growth under new multi-year contracts.
Steve White, Stonebriar’s Co-Founder and EVP said, "We were pleased to partner with an established entity that serves thousands of businesses across 120 countries, including half of the Fortune 100, as well as the US and UK governments. The company employs ~7,000 people and operates over 40 data sites globally. Their sponsor was fully supportive of this financing which served to further bolster liquidity. I am very proud to be supported by such an experienced Stonebriar team including Harrison Smith, Olivia Glode, Ben Steller and Jason Schwartz. The team seamlessly closed an extremely complex transaction.”