Overview
- SoftBank will pay $16.00 per share in cash, valuing DigitalBridge at about $4 billion and reflecting a 15% premium to its Dec. 26 closing price.
- DigitalBridge’s board unanimously approved the transaction after a special committee recommendation, and the company will be taken private upon completion.
- The firm will remain a separately managed platform led by CEO Marc Ganzi, overseeing roughly $108 billion in digital‑infrastructure assets including stakes in DataBank, Switch, Vantage and Yondr.
- SoftBank casts the deal as a cornerstone of its AI buildout, tying it to efforts like the Stargate partnership with OpenAI, Oracle and MGX and recent capital shifts such as selling its Nvidia stake.
- DigitalBridge shares jumped on the news and have traded near 52-week highs since takeover reports earlier in December.