With the acquisition of Pearce, CBRE expects to generate more than $350 million of Core EBITDA from digital and power infrastructure services businesses* in 2026. This does not include any gains from potential data center development land sales.
CBRE expects to end 2025 with net leverage of approximately 1.1x, the midpoint of its target range of 0 to 2.0x.
J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC and Wells Fargo are acting as financial advisors and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP as legal advisor to CBRE. Ropes & Gray LLP is acting as legal advisor to Pearce and New Mountain Capital.
*Digital and power infrastructure consists of services delivered for and investments in data centers across facilities management, project management, leasing, sales, loan originations, valuations, investment management and development. It also includes facilities management services provided to wireless and fiber networks, power and energy assets.
About CBRE Group, Inc.
CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2024 revenue). The company has more than 140,000 employees (including Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE serves clients through four business segments: Advisory (leasing, sales, debt origination, mortgage servicing, valuations); Building Operations & Experience (facilities management, property management, flex space & experience); Project Management (program management, project management, cost consulting); Real Estate Investments (investment management, development). Please visit our website at www.cbre.com. We routinely post important information on our website, including corporate and investor presentations and financial information. We intend to use our website as a means of disclosing material, non-public information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Such disclosures will be included in the Investor Relations section of our website at https://ir.cbre.com. Accordingly, investors should monitor such portion of our website, in addition to following our press releases, Securities and Exchange Commission filings and public conference calls and webcasts.
About Pearce Services
Pearce is a leading technology-enabled provider of asset management solutions for mission-critical electromechanical infrastructure throughout North America. Pearce provides technical maintenance, repair, operations, and engineering services for uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, backup power generators, battery energy storage systems (BESS), critical cooling systems, and other electrical and mechanical infrastructure across end markets such as renewable energy, telecom, and data centers. Founded in 1998, Pearce has more than 4,000 employees and 28 locations across the U.S. To learn more about Pearce visit http://www.pearce-services.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain of the statements in this release regarding CBRE’s acquisition of Pearce Services, LLC that do not concern purely historical data are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are made based on our management’s expectations and beliefs concerning future events affecting us and are subject to uncertainties and factors relating to our operations and business environment, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control. Accordingly, actual performance, results and events may vary materially from those indicated in forward-looking statements, and you should not rely on forward-looking statements as predictions of future performance, results or events. Numerous factors could cause actual future performance, results and events to differ materially from those indicated in forward-looking statements, including, but not limited