Oliver Loveless

Oliver Loveless is a Principal at Analysys Mason specialising in digital infrastructure transactions, business planning and commercial strategy. He has nearly nine years' experience supporting investors, lenders and operators across telecoms and digital infrastructure markets.

Oliver has extensive experience advising on data-centre-related transactions and strategic assessments, including:

• Leading a market and pricing assessment supporting the refinancing of a London hyperscale yieldco, focused on the Slough and West London markets, including long-term pricing forecasts and assessment of future demand dynamics; he also led similar work for a stabilised hyperscale platform in Frankfurt
• Separately, Oliver also has experience in the enterprise data centre segment, most recently managing our diligence assessment of firstcolo, a leading colocation platform in Frankfurt

Other experience includes leading a location scouting and market assessment for a data-centre operator seeking new hyperscale development sites across the UK, carrying out site specific assessments on digital infrastructure real estate (e.g. telecom operator points of presence) for buy-leaseback arrangements and ongoing assessments of BT’s exchange portfolio on behalf of Telereal Trillium.

Analysys Mason

Analysys Mason is a global management consulting firm helping clients make and act on the decisions that steer their progress and connect our world. We provide bespoke strategy, transaction, transformation, regulation and policy consulting, combined with research and insights, and help clients navigate complex transformation journeys, always shaping the next.

Our Transaction Support practice is one of the largest specialist TMT advisory teams globally, providing commercial, technical, operational, regulatory, cyber and ESG due diligence across the investment lifecycle. We support investors from opportunity screening and investment thesis development through acquisition due diligence, refinancing, portfolio value creation and exit preparation. In recent years, we have completed more than 1,200 transaction support engagements across telecoms, digital infrastructure, technology and data centres, advising leading private equity firms, infrastructure funds, lenders and strategic investors worldwide. In the data-centre sector specifically, we have supported over 130 projects globally in the last 5 years across hyperscale, AI, colocation and enterprise platforms.