🕒 2 days ago
Drive complex SaaS and technology transactions across EMEA, advise cross-functional teams on commercial risk, and help build AI-enabled legal workflows while monitoring data privacy and AI regulations.
Managing Counsel - Data Center & Infrastructure, SF Bay Area (remote considered) (1001-SLS)
📅 Sep 28
Data Center AcquisitionsDigital Infrastructure TransactionsReal Estate TransactionsLease Negotiation
📜 Description
- Lead data center acquisition and digital infrastructure transactions from diligence and structuring through negotiation and closing.
- Negotiate leases, colocation, capacity reservation, development, and connectivity agreements.
- Manage legal relationships with data center operators, lessors, financing sources, and capacity customers.
- Advise on post-acquisition construction, design, equipment, supply chain, regulatory matters, and disputes.
- Advise on corporate structure, governance, and risk for infrastructure transactions.
🛠️ Requirements
- At least 10 years of direct legal experience with or at data center providers, neo-clouds or hyperscalers on real estate and physical infrastructure transactions.
- Experience negotiating complex leases or colocation agreements. Familiarity with single-tenant facilities and behind-the-meter power arrangements is particularly valuable.
- Track record of leading sophisticated transactions across business and technical teams, managing interdependencies and moving deals forward with urgency.
- Ability to negotiate technical terms involving compute infrastructure, hardware specifications, data center operations, equipment, power and utilities requirements.
- Experience with transaction diligence, regulatory issues and dispute resolution, and the agility to learn adjacent practice areas.
- Practical judgment and a hands-on approach as priorities evolve.
- J.D. and active bar admission required. A mix of leading law firm and in-house experience is preferred.
✨ Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Substantial equity grant
Full job description
Our client is a rapidly growing AI infrastructure company whose computing systems and cloud services support demanding AI workloads. Following a successful recent initial public offering, it is expanding its global data center footprint to meet growing demand for compute.
The company seeks a Managing Counsel - Data Center & Infrastructure to lead major data center acquisitions and development transactions. Working with the Global Data Centers team, this attorney will structure and negotiate complex deals, including financing components, and manage long-term infrastructure relationships.
This visible, hands-on role offers ownership of transactions central to the company’s growth and the opportunity to take on broader strategic responsibility as the business expands.
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