Data Centers overview

White & Case is among a small number of global law firms to offer a dedicated, partner-led data center team focused on delivering market-leading legal services to this rapidly evolving sector. Our deep industry knowledge, combined with our experience across jurisdictions, enables us to anticipate legal and commercial challenges and support clients at every stage of the data center lifecycle.

Integrated, multijurisdictional capability

Our data center team advises on the full range of legal issues unique to the sector, including development and construction, financing, operations, leasing and use. We also provide integrated advice on critical related matters such as power procurement, planning and zoning, emissions and sustainability regulation, and facilities management.

In addition, we advise investors, developers and operators on data center-related investments, both direct and indirect, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, fund investments, partnerships and other strategic transactions.

With teams in all key data center markets, we are well placed to support complex, multi-jurisdictional platforms and businesses on both the buy-side and sell-side. We have extensive experience structuring pre-sale carve-outs and implementing post-closing alignment and integration strategies to support long-term value creation.

Data Centers experience

Cathexis

Representation of Cathexis Holdings L.P on the completion of the sale of Yondr Group, a global developer, owner and operator of hyperscale data centers, to DigitalBridge and La Caisse.

Brookfield Asset Management

Representation of Brookfield Asset Management on the acquisition by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, a leading global infrastructure company that owns and operates high-quality, long-life assets in the utilities, transport, midstream and data sectors across North and South America, Asia Pacific and Europe, of substantially all of the assets of Cyxtera Technologies, Inc., a global leader in data center colocation, interconnection services, and digital infrastructure, for US$775 million.

GlobalConnect

Representation of Mubadala, an Emirati state-owned company acting as a sovereign wealth fund, in its acquisition of a 15% stake in GlobalConnect, a digital infrastructure business with fiber networks and data centers.

Vantage Data Centers

Representation of Vantage Data Centers as borrower counsel, on a US$3 billion revolving credit facility to fund the ongoing development of its North America data center platform, which presently comprises 12 campuses across the US and Canada.

Digital Realty

Representation of Digital Realty on the US$680 million sale of a portfolio of 11 data centers across Europe, to Ascendas Reit, a SGX-listed REIT.

Morgan Stanley

Representation of Morgan Stanley on the €900 million financing for the development of a data center campus in Dublin.

DigitalBridge

Representation of DigitalBridge on its US$750 million carveout acquisition of data center assets in Hong Kong and Malaysia from PCCW.

Royal Bank of Canada

Representation of Royal Bank of Canada in relation to a new data center project on the East Coast of the US.

GIC

Representation of GIC on its joint venture with Polymer Connected to develop Tier III and Tier IV wholesale data center facilities in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Leading global data center developer

Representation of a leading global data center developer on its joint venture with a Saudi partner company to construct a data center in Saudi Arabia.