By mandate / Sell, acquire or finance
Data center investment and capital advisors
Sell a facility, buy a platform or raise capital. Compare property capital markets teams such as Eastdil Secured and CBRE with investment banks such as Moelis, Lazard and Houlihan Lokey, each with its published deal record.
| Avison Young | Real estate brokerage | — | Site selection; provider selection and representation; transaction services; valuation; capital markets; debt and equity; project management; network and connectivity | Represented the seller of a 343-acre parcel bought by Tract for the 1GW Morris Technology Park campus in Illinois (January 2026), per Avison Young | 2026-11-11 |
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| BNP Paribas Real Estate | Real estate brokerage | United Kingdom; EMEA | Land purchase; development appraisals; investment analysis and purchases; leasing advice; lease restructuring | Advised Equinix on buying an 85-acre freehold site in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, for its planned £3.9B campus (October 2025), per BNP Paribas Real Estate | 2026-11-11 |
| CBRE | Real estate brokerage | Global | Occupier leasing; investor leasing; acquisitions and dispositions; recapitalization; consulting | CBRE states $6.0B+ in annual global data center transaction value and 10M sq ft of colocation space leased each year | 2026-11-11 |
| Colliers | Real estate brokerage | Americas | Tenant representation; site selection; build-to-suit advisory; valuation; acquisition and disposition | Americas practice lead Raul Saavedra’s Colliers biography states 600+ MW of transactions completed | 2026-11-11 |
| Cresa | Real estate brokerage | North America; global through Knight Frank partnership | Development site sales; asset sales; owner leasing; occupier representation; financing; project management | Cresa’s data center team states 3,000+ acres of powered land and development sites transacted | 2026-11-11 |
| Cushman & Wakefield | Real estate brokerage | Global | Site selection; power procurement; lease negotiation; facility management; disposition | Washington, D.C. data center advisory team states $9B+ of data center transactions advised worldwide over the last decade | 2026-11-11 |
| Data Center Group | Real estate brokerage | United States | Land brokerage; site selection; power and infrastructure screening; entitlement; development | — | 2026-11-11 |
| DC Advisory | Capital advisory | Europe; North America | Digital infrastructure M&A and partnership advisory covering datacentres, fibre and towers | Exclusive advisor to PGGM on its partnership with European data centre platform Penta Infra, per DC Advisory | 2026-11-11 |
| Eastdil Secured | Capital advisory | United States; international | Sales; leasing; joint ventures; financing | Top seller-side broker of 2025 data center property sales: $1.58B of advisory work, 49.8% share (Real Estate Alert ranking on Green Street data, published by Eastdil) | 2026-11-11 |
| Five 9s Digital | Real estate brokerage | United States (national coverage) | Acquisitions; dispositions; leasing; power advisory and procurement; valuation; lease renewals; site selection; powered land | Five 9s lists the $130M sale of CME Group’s Chicago data center to CyrusOne with a 10 MW leaseback | 2026-11-11 |
| Houlihan Lokey | Capital advisory | International | M&A; capital solutions; financial restructuring; valuation | Exclusive sell-side advisor to Connect Des Moines on its sale to Cologix, closed June 1, 2024, per Houlihan Lokey | 2026-11-11 |
| JLL | Real estate brokerage | Global | Colocation site selection; land acquisition; divestment; financing; energy procurement | JLL states 3.0+ GW of colocation transactions completed | 2026-11-11 |
| Knight Frank | Real estate brokerage | Global | Colocation acquisition; lease renewals; site selection; freehold acquisitions; sale-leasebacks; valuation | — | 2026-11-11 |
| Lazard | Capital advisory | — | Financial advisory and M&A for data center, tower and fiber owners | Exclusive financial advisor to T5 Operations on its sale to Salute Mission Critical (2026), per King & Spalding | 2026-11-11 |
| Moelis & Company | Capital advisory | — | M&A; powered land sales; joint ventures; equity and debt capital raises | Moelis lists a $6B programmatic joint venture with Cloud Capital to invest in hyperscale data centers (2026) and an $835M Brookfield equity and Deutsche Bank debt raise (2025) | 2026-11-11 |
| Newmark | Real estate brokerage | Global | Site selection; power and fiber due diligence; tenant representation; acquisitions; sale-leasebacks; valuation | — | 2026-11-11 |
| North American Data Centers | Real estate brokerage | United States; Canada | Acquisitions; leasing; dispositions; lease renewals | NADC states founder Jim Kerrigan has sold 4M+ sq ft of data centers since 2016, mostly in Northern Virginia: 20 properties worth $1.2B+ | 2026-11-11 |
| Savills | Real estate brokerage | EMEA | Land acquisition; lease advisory; colocation sourcing; investment acquisition and disposal; M&A; debt structuring | — | 2026-11-11 |
What to put in your brief
Specify whether the mandate concerns land, an operating facility, a portfolio, a platform acquisition or financing. Request relevant completed mandates, the responsible team and the proposed transaction structure.
Ask: Does the named team’s track record concern this asset type, geography and transaction structure?