Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure

From the Sector’s Earliest Days to Its Current Scale

Advising clients across the digital infrastructure sector since its earliest days, with sustained experience navigating power availability, capital formation, and platform growth as the market has scaled.

Extensive Experience Across Platform-Scale Development

Supporting the development, financing, and operation of more than 40 million square feet of data center, interconnection, and colocation facilities, aligning siting, power strategy, and capital structures to enable scalable platforms.

Market-Defining Transactions

Mintz advised Potentia on the closing of Heartland Industrial Park, a landmark Indiana technology infrastructure project expected to drive $65 billion in investment by 2030. 

The development is projected to create thousands of jobs and deliver significant long-term economic and community benefits across the region. This milestone highlights both Potentia’s vision for next-generation digital infrastructure and Mintz’s leadership in complex infrastructure transactions.

Representative experience includes the following matters across core areas of digital infrastructure, illustrating Mintz’s work on data center and colocation projects, in-building connectivity systems, and wireless network deployment.

Data Centers and Colocation Facilities

• Regularly represent CoreSite, a large data center public company, in multiple major data center leases and other transactions, including multiple transactions of 5 – 25 megawatts opposite hyperscalers and major financial institutions.
• Represented Aspen Creek Digital Corporation, a developer of renewable-powered data centers, in the development and financing of multiple projects, including in debt and equity financings, equipment financings, hosting and leasing arrangements, refinancings and restructurings.
• Represented Sentinel Data Centers for many years in the acquisition, development, leasing, financing, refinancing of several projects, and the eventual sale of two portfolios of major data center properties.
• Represented Landmark Dividend in a sale-leaseback and associated financing transaction with PayPal on PayPal’s main data center in Phoenix, Arizona.

• Representing Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (Alphabet/Google backed) and its subsidiary Verrus on all aspects of multiple “green” data centers across the US through highly innovative deployment strategies, including on-site storage and grid services.

• Represented Spring Lane Capital in structuring and financing a unique “green” data center complex with multiple 25 MW projects, each with different co-owners, shared infrastructure, and sleeved power from an energy coop in a novel commercial structure.

• Represented a top 10 ranked University system in its data center lease, associated commercial contracts and overall project transactions.
• Represented Brown Brothers Harriman in a complex data center project with a three-party agreement with the data center owner and the data center tenant/operator.

Distributed Antenna, Neutral Host & In-Building Wireless Systems

• Represented the owner of UBS Arena in a neutral host lease with Verizon Wireless to support 5G service.

• Represented MSG in connection with owner-funded in-building and external DAS systems and agreements with multiple national carriers for DAS participation and 5G upgrades.

• Advised on state-of-the-art telecom infrastructure and DAS, including 5G cellular capability, for the new $1 billion Chase Center Arena for the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco, CA.

• Represented Boston Properties in agreements with two national cellular carriers to install, own, and operate DAS systems in two groups of buildings within the REIT's portfolio.

• Representing a 5 million sq. ft. historic intermodal shipping, office, retail, warehousing, and manufacturing complex on the Upper New York Bay waterfront in developing a Verizon Wireless neutral host system.

• Representing a major music and entertainment arena near the Las Vegas strip with the DAS and other telecommunications infrastructure for its new and unique entertainment venue.

Wireless Infrastructure Deployment

• Advised multiple small wireless infrastructure providers in developing legal and regulatory strategy for deployment of nationwide small cell networks.
• Represent wireless network providers in hundreds of local jurisdictions nationwide obtaining local right of way agreements, zoning, and other necessary authorizations to deploy 5G networks.
• Represented a national communications provider in an acquisition by a multi-national tower company.
• Represent a national wireless trade association in developing pro-deployment regulatory policy at FCC and state regulatory agencies.
• Represent major communications providers in negotiating access to utility and streetlight poles and related utility infrastructure with multiple multi-state investor-owned utilities as well as with municipal utilities and coops.
• Represent an advertising services company in the purchase of fixed wireless networks and licenses.