Overview
With our expertise in investment funds, finance, securitization, real estate, M&A, environmental and land use, IP, and data privacy, we provide a comprehensive approach to your data center transactions.
We know the data center industry’s needs and requirements, from wholesale/hyperscale and colocation to enterprise, including information storage, property needs, power and cooling supply, and redundancy requirements.
Alston & Bird’s Data Center Team understands the complex technical and unique operational issues you face daily. We represent data center developers, investors, operators, lenders, and other related companies throughout the entire life cycle of a data center project.
Our services range from strategy, fund formation, financing, site selection, acquisition, development, leasing, and operations to exit. Our multidisciplinary team of attorneys works seamlessly with our subject-matter expert colleagues in data privacy, intellectual property, economic development, REITs, and tax.
Clients seek our advice on transactions that include:
- Counseling private investment funds and asset managers on fund formation, private transactions, regulatory enforcement, and more in the data center sector.
- Providing advice on structured finance and M&A transactions involving data center revenues.
- Representing lenders in financing data centers involving construction, term, mezzanine, and revolving credit lines.
- Providing national credit rating agency guidance on data center securitizations.
- Representing borrowers in the data center construction financing space.
- Representing clients in the acquisition, due diligence, and disposition of data centers, including joint venture agreements.
- Counseling clients on complex environmental permitting and land use matters.
- Providing practical answers to tough global privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity issues.