Creative Dealmaking in the Age of AI

The AI buildout is creating one of the largest financing challenges in modern technology. As infrastructure costs climb into the tens of billions, banks, private credit firms, investors and technology companies are developing new ways to fund the computing boom.

Join us for a conversation with three leaders shaping how these deals get done: John Greenwood, global head of Infrastructure and Real Asset Finance at Goldman Sachs; Matthew A'Hearn, head of Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure, one of the major financiers of hyperscaler data centers; and Steven Messina, global head of Skadden's Finance Group, who advises banks and investors on these transactions.

The conversation will be moderated by Dakin Campbell, our finance reporter who covers the money behind the AI boom.

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Wednesday, July 22^nd, 2026
12:00 pm PT / 3:00 pm ET

Meta spent a year engineering a for $30 billion financing for its Hyperion data center that kept the debt off its balance sheet, using a special-purpose vehicle and bringing in Blue Owl as an equity partner. Elsewhere, private credit funds, insurers and chipmakers are underwriting the AI infrastructure boom through new approaches to leases, asset-backed loans and other bespoke financing structures.

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