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Fund facts

Asset Class
Buyout
Subclass
Data Infrastructure
APIR Code
SPI0698AU
Target Net IRR (Underlying Fund)
25%+
Distribution Frequency
n/a
Distribution Commencing (Estimate)
2027
Spire Management Fees
0.50% p.a. x the Capital Commitment that the Units have made to the Underlying Fund plus GST.
Platforms / Wrap Access
Netwealth, Hub24
Investment Partner
Data Center Fund

Background

Spire Capital Limited (“Spire”) continues to have high conviction in select pockets of global private markets (i.e., ‘sweet spots’). This includes working in partnership with Valterra Partners LLC (‘Valterra’), to find attractive direct co-investment opportunities within the field of private equity infrastructure. More specifically, this means investment opportunities attached to essential services, underserved end-markets and long-term secular demand trends (e.g., data consumption).

Market Overview

According to Blackstone, more data has been created in the past three years than in all of human history combined, driven by cloud adoption, content creation and now AI. All this data needs a place to live, creating demand for data centers and opportunity to invest at scale. Internet users, connected devices and speeds continue to increase, creating significantly more demand for data infrastructure services. The assets that provide the access to data (towers, fiber and datacenters) are increasingly being viewed as critical infrastructure to the economy. With this, data centres are increasingly being viewed as infrastructure assets because they possess many of the same key attributes as traditional core infrastructure investments including long term contracts, stable and predictable cash flows, high free cashflow generation and stable underlying demand drivers.

Fund Opportunity

ColoHouse and Valterra Partners have identified an opportunity to acquire a 96.8% interest in a business) – one of the fastest growing bare metal cloud providers in North America. The balance of the business is being retained by its founders, who will roll US$5m of equity into the merged business.

ColoHouse management and Valterra Partners believe that this acquisition and merger with the existing ColoHouse operations will be highly complementary to the existing ColoHouse business, with multiple revenue and cost synergies capable of being unlocked.

Ordinary Units

30 June 2024 Nil CPU Cash, Nil CPU FITOs $ Distribution Components FY24