Aquila Group
Hamburg-based founder-owned group, founded in 2001, that builds clean energy, data centre, real estate and agri-tech platforms. It sold 80% of AQ Compute to Bain Capital in 2024 and opened an Abu Dhabi office in 2025.
Industry: Investment and industrial development (clean energy, digital infrastructure, real estate) | Location: Hamburg, Germany | Founded: 2001
About Aquila Group
Aquila Group is a Hamburg-based private investment and industrial development company. It describes itself as founder-owned: it identifies structural trends early, backs them with its own capital and builds platforms around them, then hands a business to an institutional owner once it is large enough. Its focus themes include digital infrastructure, distributed power and real estate.
Roman Rosslenbroich founded the company in 2001 and is its chief executive. Wikipedia lists Dieter Rentsch as the other co-founder. The website names Christian Ohl as chief financial officer, Dino Duderstadt as chief operating officer and general counsel, and Max Dreiner as head of corporate development and strategy.
The website lists five businesses. Aquila Clean Energy EMEA develops and operates European clean energy projects with a portfolio of about 14 GW. Aquila Clean Energy APAC operates in six Asia-Pacific countries with a portfolio of more than 2.8 GW. hscale is a pan-European data centre platform run as a joint venture with Bain Capital. AQ Acentor oversees Spanish residential construction of about 7,700 units, and Future Farming Solutions is an agri-tech joint venture.
On 30 October 2024 Bain Capital agreed to acquire 80 percent of AQ Compute, the data centre company Aquila founded in 2020. Aquila kept 20 percent and said it would invest several hundred million euros alongside Bain. AQ Compute became part of hscale, which Bain Capital launched in May 2025 with Aquila holding 20 percent. On 8 April 2025 Aquila announced an Abu Dhabi office, Aquila Capital Middle East, based in Abu Dhabi Global Market and led by Zaki Nuseibeh. It then reported more than 15.4 billion euros of assets under management and more than 25 billion euros of transactions since 2001.
In late September 2026 Latham & Watkins reported that Aquila agreed to sell Aquila Clean Energy APAC to ESR. The platform has a 1.6 GW pipeline across Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan; the price was not disclosed and completion is expected by the first quarter of 2027. TechScoop reported in June 2026 that Dubai Holding was in preliminary talks to take a stake in hscale.
Leadership
- Roman Rosslenbroich, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Christian Ohl, Chief Financial Officer
- Dino Duderstadt, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel
- Max Dreiner, Head of Corporate Development and Strategy
- Zaki Nuseibeh, Head of Aquila Capital Middle East