Global commercial real estate and investment management company JLL has appointed Luke Jackson and Bob Tan as its co-heads of data centre ( DC ) investment and advisory services for the Asia-Pacific region, strengthening the firm’s global sector platform.

Jackson and Tan will assume joint responsibility to lead transaction advisory services to clients in relation to data centre acquisition, disposition, financing, portfolio trade, capital raising and partnership strategies. They will complement the US and the Europe, Middle East and Africa ( EMEA ) data centre capital markets teams and work closely with the company’s project management and facilities management businesses to offer a comprehensive solution to clients. 

Jackson has relocated from London to Sydney to assume his new role. He crosses from the company’s London office where he was the head of data centres, capital markets, EMEA, bringing valuable cross-regional experience to Asia Pacific, and continuing to work closely with the company’s EMEA data centre team.

He has held this role since January 2020, working with institutional investors, corporations, and operators active in the global data centres space. Jackson joined the company in Sydney in 2008 and has a wealth of commercial real experience across the data centres, industrial and logistics and hotels sectors.

Tan will remain based in Singapore as co-head. He joined JLL in 2005, and over the past decade has advised on a wide variety of data centre transactions including acquisition, disposal, sale and leaseback, strategic colocation and portfolio trades across Asia-Pacific.

“Our data centre platform must reflect the growth ambitions and demands of an increasingly global investor and client base to best serve this rapidly expanding sector,” says Rohit Hemnani, chief operating officer and head of alternatives, capital markets, Asia-Pacific, JLL. “With their collective experience, combining the unmatched strength of our company’s global data centre capital markets expertise, we’re confident that Jackson and Tan will establish a new benchmark in delivering innovative capital solution strategies in this dynamic sector.”

Stuart Crow, the company’s CEO of capital markets for Asia-Pacific, adds: “There are clear synergies in providing a cross-border data centres platform for investors. Jackson’s EMEA advisory experience will seamlessly complement Tan’s expertise in Asia-Pacific, providing solutions our global clients require to make actionable and strategic decisions.”