World’s largest independent infrastructure alternative investment manager expands credit, digital infrastructure, and technology investment capabilities
NEW YORK & ALEXANDRIA, Va. – November 12, 2024 – Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, today announced that it has agreed to acquire Boundary Street Capital, LP (“Boundary Street”), a leading specialist private credit investment manager focused on the digital infrastructure, enterprise infrastructure software, and technology services sectors in the lower middle market. Boundary Street currently has more than $700 million of capital commitments.
Stonepeak’s credit business (“Stonepeak Credit”) has been actively investing in private and secondary infrastructure credit since 2018. Its experienced team of credit professionals takes a disciplined approach to investing across the capital structure as they seek to create a diverse portfolio in the infrastructure and real assets sectors, including digital infrastructure, energy and energy transition, and transport and logistics.
Stonepeak has long been at the forefront of investing in the infrastructure assets underpinning the global megatrend of digitalization currently being driven by data proliferation and the increased adoption of AI. This transaction further strengthens Stonepeak Credit’s digital infrastructure investing capabilities and supports its expansion into complementary sub-sectors, including enterprise and infrastructure software, cloud and managed services, technology-enabled services, advanced mobility, and earlier stage digital infrastructure platforms. With the addition of Boundary Street’s platform and team of experienced professionals who have deep credit and technology sector expertise, Stonepeak will seek to offer a more comprehensive set of credit and credit-linked capital solutions to businesses taking advantage of the strong tailwinds in the digital infrastructure and technology services sectors across multiple stages of the growth lifecycle.
Jack Howell, Co-President of Stonepeak, said, “We continue to see compelling investment opportunities within the credit space, especially as it relates to digital infrastructure, which has long been one of Stonepeak’s most active sectors. Over the last several years, we’ve made thoughtful investments to further build out our credit platform, including the addition of Michael Leitner as a Senior Managing Director in 2023. As we have built out the broader credit organization and successfully deployed capital across the capital stack into world-class infrastructure portfolio companies, the team has continued to excel. The acquisition of Boundary Street is a natural next step in the growth of the firm and the evolution of Stonepeak Credit. We are excited for what this transaction means for our limited partners and look forward to having the Boundary Street team onboard.”
Michael Leitner, Senior Managing Director at Stonepeak, added, “Boundary Street has assembled an exceptional team who have been investing in digital infrastructure and related technology services businesses since the mid-2000s. By combining Stonepeak’s expertise and resources with the Boundary Street team’s complementary experience and skillsets, we will have the ability to broaden our investment aperture and execute more efficiently on the opportunities we’re seeing in AI-driven businesses, including cloud services, enterprise and infrastructure software, and digital services, while bringing a more comprehensive breadth of offerings to our constituent borrowers and limited partners.”
Rashad Kawmy, Partner and Co-Founder at Boundary Street, said, “We are thrilled to be partnering with Stonepeak to achieve the full scale of our vision for Boundary Street, and to continue being a strong partner to all of our stakeholders. As an early mover investor in digital infrastructure, Stonepeak knows the space extremely well and their expertise will be additive to our strategy. With the benefits of Stonepeak’s scale, resources, and shared passion for digital infrastructure, we will be even better positioned to continue making sound and thoughtful credit investments and helping grow tomorrow’s greatest technology businesses and digital infrastructure platforms. Our focus on both real asset intensive business models as well as those with exceptionally strong and defensible intellectual property foundations will continue in partnership with Stonepeak.”
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2024 subject to customary and regulatory approvals.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP served as legal counsel to Stonepeak. Hogan Lovells served as legal counsel to Boundary Street.
About Stonepeak
Stonepeak is a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets with approximately $70 billion of assets under management. Through its investment in defensive, hard-asset businesses globally, Stonepeak aims to create value for its investors and portfolio companies, with a focus on downside protection and strong risk-adjusted returns. Stonepeak, as sponsor of private equity and credit investment vehicles, provides capital, operational support, and committed partnership to grow investments in its target sectors, which include communications, energy and energy transition, transport and logistics, and real estate. Stonepeak is headquartered in New York with offices in Houston, London, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Abu Dhabi. For more information, please visit www.stonepeak.com.
About Boundary Street Capital
Boundary Street is a private credit investment manager focused on providing flexible capital solutions specifically to lower middle market technology and telecommunications businesses and backed by a team of investment professionals with decades of experience investing in these sectors. Boundary Street seeks to invest credit in durable, recurring revenue businesses providing the mission critical services that will drive economic growth, bridge the digital divide, and keep families and businesses connected. To learn more, visit www.boundarystreetcapital.com.
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