Company: DBRG
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-004974
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Company: DigitalBridge Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 Japan’s leading independent towerco, extending the Company’s global infrastructure footprint. DigitalBridge also supported the $3.3 billion acquisition of Verizon’s U.S. tower assets by Vertical Bridge and led a significant equity recapitalization of DataBank, its U.S.-based edge data center platform. |

| ■ | Capital Markets and Financing Scale: Facilitated $24 billion in net capital formation across DBRG portfolio companies including equity and debt, from traditional bank financings to asset-backed securitizations, enabling continued investment at portfolio companies while lowering the blended cost of capital. |

DIGITALBRIDGE 2025 PROXY STATEMENT |3

PROXY SUMMARY

Scale – Financial Leverage, Operating Efficiency, and Strategic Growth

| ■ | Solid Financial Performance: Fee revenue increased over 20%, and Fee-Related Earnings (FRE) grew over 30% year-over-year in 2024, supported by operating leverage and continued scaling of the investment platform. FRE margin expanded to 32%. While the overall mix of fundraising impacted the Company's ability to meet original FRE guidance, the quality and long-duration nature of the capital raised positions the platform for long-term carry generation and compounding of value. |

| ■ | Capital Structure Optimization & Deployment: The Company fully retired its remaining exchangeable notes in the second quarter of 2024, reducing total corporate debt to $300 million and generating incremental interest savings. The Company deployed approximately $90 million in GP Co-invest, allowing DBRG to compound capital alongside LPs in our funds. |

| ■ | Scaling With Discipline: In 2024, DigitalBridge advanced its roadmap to become a global multi-strategy platform, building new relationships with institutional investors, expanding its private wealth distribution capabilities, and laying the groundwork for new strategies in digital energy and stabilized data centers, expected to launch in 2025. |

Positioned for 2025 and Beyond With nearly $100 billion in portfolio assets under management, DigitalBridge enters 2025 with strong momentum and a clear strategic vision. As macroeconomic conditions evolve and technology transitions from AI training to real-time inference workloads, we believe the breadth, resilience, and diversification of the DigitalBridge platform—spanning data centers, towers, fiber, and energy—will be increasingly relevant. Corporate Governance Highlights

| No classified board(1)                             |     | Majority of independent directors                     |
| Majority voting standard for election of directors |     | Favorable stockholder rights(2)                       |
| Anti-hedging/pled