Exhibit 5.1
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Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 1600 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025 | | 650 752 2000 tel 650 752 2111 fax | | | | |
March 4, 2019
Equinix, Inc.
One Lagoon Drive
Redwood City, California 94065
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Equinix, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Registration Statement on FormS-3 (FileNo. 333-221380) (the “Registration Statement”) for the purpose of registering under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), certain securities, including 2,985,575 shares (the “Shares”) of its common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), to be sold pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement dated February 27, 2019 (the “Underwriting Agreement”) among the Company and the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”). The Shares include 389,422 shares of Common Stock that the Underwriters have the option to purchase pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement.
We, as your counsel, have examined originals or copies of such documents, corporate records, certificates of public officials and other instruments as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purpose of rendering this opinion.
In rendering the opinion expressed herein, we have, without independent inquiry or investigation, assumed that (i) all documents submitted to us as originals are authentic and complete, (ii) all documents submitted to us as copies conform to authentic, complete originals, (iii) all signatures on all documents that we reviewed are genuine, (iv) all natural persons executing documents had and have the legal capacity to do so, (v) all statements in certificates of public officials and officers of the Company that we reviewed were and are accurate and (vi) all representations made by the Company as to matters of fact in the documents that we reviewed were and are accurate.
Based upon the foregoing, we advise you that, in our opinion, when the Shares have been issued and delivered against payment therefor in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid andnon-assessable.
We are members of the Bars of the States of New York and California and the foregoing opinion is limited to the laws of the State of New York and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
