Brookfield Asset Management provides equity financing to 5C
On July 23, 2025, Brookfield Asset Management ("Brookfield") and Deutsche Bank led a US$835 million equity and debt financing for 5C Group. Brookfield is investing in 5C through its Infrastructure Structured Solutions platform, along with its affiliated partners. This funding will drive the expansion of 5C’s advanced data centers and AI infrastructure across North America, helping meet the surging demand for AI computing power and digital infrastructure.
Brookfield Asset Management is a leading global alternative asset manager, headquartered in New York, with over $1 trillion of assets under management across renewable power and transition, infrastructure, private equity, real estate, and credit.
5C Group based in Montreal, Quebec is an AI Digital Infrastructure provider that focuses on designing, deploying and operating high-performance data centers and cloud platforms.
Deutsche Bank based in Frankfurt, Germany is a global banking and financial services institution that focuses on investment banking to private individuals, small and medium-sized companies, corporations, governments and institutional investors.
McCarthy Tétrault advised Brookfield Asset Management with a team led by Jonathan See, Jeremy Pleasant and Haiya Peng, that included Khristoff Browning and Ruo Lan Wang (Business Law); Raj Juneja, Kabir Jamal and Justin Ng (Tax); Conrad Lee and Eugen Miscoi (Privacy and Data Security); Patrick Pengelly, Francis Racine, Charlotte Simard-Zakaib and Andrew Weizman (Labour and Employment); Isabel Henkelman, Matthew Pekofsky, Xin Yue Zhang and Daniel Korman (Real Property); Vincent Yip (Intellectual Property); Jason Gudofsky and Gideon Kwinter (Competition and Antitrust).
