Kirkland & Ellis advised KKR in its role within a series of strategic partnerships with NVIDIA designed to establish independent compute financing platforms.
In addition to KKR, NVIDIA is partnering with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital for the buildout of AI infrastructure over time.
Memorandums of understanding signed with six of the world’s premier financial institutions to create these partnerships aim to establish the first compute financing platforms of their kind at global scale to enable the AI infrastructure buildout across NVIDIA’s ecosystem, including leading frontier AI labs, enterprises and AI clouds.
Under these strategic partnerships, NVIDIA will work with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to create dedicated pools of capital at significant scale at attractive rates for NVIDIA customers.
The new financing platforms will turn NVIDIA compute and full-stack AI Infrastructure into an investable asset class for global capital, broadening access to AI factories, enabling long-duration usage-linked revenue while supporting NVIDIA’s ecosystem growth across hardware sales and software adoption.
The Kirkland team included hybrid capital solutions lawyers Roald Nashi, John Pitts, Greg Howling and Kelsey Baumberger.
