Defendant
2 cases as defendant.
I'll research TierPoint, LLC before writing the profile.
TierPoint, LLC is a privately held U.S. data center and hybrid-IT services provider headquartered at 12444 Powerscourt Drive, St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in July 2010 as Cequel Data Centers; parent Cequel III acquired TierPoint in 2012 and adopted the name. Most third-party trackers put headcount in the ~900–915 range and revenue near $380 million, though a precise current figure is not publicly disclosed (PitchBook; Crustdata; St. Louis Business Journal). The company is private-equity backed: Argo Infrastructure Partners has been the majority shareholder since July 2024 and reports roughly $2.3 billion invested in the platform since 2020; other investors include Wafra, Macquarie Capital Principal Finance, Cequel III, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, TA Associates, RedBird Capital and the Stephens Group. Argo itself was acquired by Apollo Global Management (announced 2024, closed 2025).
Operations. TierPoint is an operating company, not an NPE. It operates roughly 40 carrier-neutral enterprise data centers across about 20 U.S. markets, connected by a coast-to-coast fiber network, serving over 3,000 customers. Service lines include colocation and interconnection, private/multi-tenant/hybrid cloud, disaster recovery and DRaaS, backup and storage-as-a-service, managed security and compliance services, network connectivity, and 24/7 managed services (including IBM mainframe and Power Systems management). It has financed growth partly through investment-grade asset-backed securitizations of recurring data center revenue.
Litigation posture. TierPoint appears in the tracked data as a defendant only — 0 cases as plaintiff, 1 as defendant — the classic profile of an operating company targeted by a patent assertion entity rather than an active two-way litigant.
Notable case. Valtrus Innovations Ltd. et al. v. TierPoint, LLC (E.D. Tex., Marshall Division, No. 2:25-cv-00323). Valtrus and Key Patent Innovations, both Dublin-based patent monetization entities holding an HPE-origin portfolio, asserted flexible/modular data center patents (US 7,057,509; US 7,939,967; US 9,310,855). The parties jointly dismissed all claims with prejudice; the dismissal included no merits ruling on infringement or validity. Valtrus has filed similar suits against other data center operators, and an MDL covering that campaign was designated in 2026. Venue in Judge Gilstrap's Marshall division is standard for such assertions.
Valtrus asserted a portfolio including US 6,862,179 against TierPoint. The member case was dismissed without prejudice by joint motion; lead case 2:24-cv-00777 remained open.
Valtrus and KPI sued TierPoint. The case was dismissed without prejudice on joint motion granted by Judge Gilstrap, with no finding on infringement or validity.