Powered Land & Data Center Development

• Served as lead legal advisor to Potentia Inc. on its investment in Heartland Industrial Park, a gigawatt-scale powered land campus in Sullivan County, Indiana, leading the Mintz team through land acquisition, power negotiations, joint venture structuring, and closing.
• Represented Potentia Inc. in the acquisition of a more than 1500-acre assemblage for a hyperscale data center development and in the related power negotiations, joint venture arrangements, and sale of powered land.
• Represented a developer in assembling approximately 1,000 acres through a series of powered land transactions for a hyperscale data center development.
• Represented an infrastructure fund in separate acquisitions of powered land sites valued at $48 million, $64 million, and $40 million for the development of data center campuses.
• Represented Tonaquint Data Centers, a DIF Capital Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of EdgeX Data Centers, expanding Tonaquint’s footprint across the Mountain West and Southwest and adding powered land assets in emerging markets.
• Represented a powered land developer in a 75 MW transaction involving power procurement and land sale for data center development. 

AI & Digital Infrastructure

• Represented an AI infrastructure developer in a 100 MW AI computing infrastructure transaction involving a leading AI hardware provider and a major AI platform company, advising on the real estate, development, and infrastructure components of a next-generation AI computing deployment.
• Advised developers, operators, investors, and users on the acquisition, development, financing, leasing, and operation of critical digital infrastructure assets, including data centers, powered land campuses, and advanced computing facilities supporting AI and cloud-based technologies.

Digital Infrastructure Leasing

• Represented a leading data center owner and operator in the negotiation of four long-term data center leases with financial institutions and quantitative trading firms, with an aggregate transaction value exceeding $2 billion.
• Represented a national data center owner and operator in negotiating colocation leases with financial institutions and trading firms for deployments ranging from 1 MW to 5 MW of electrical capacity.
• Represented a data center customer in negotiating a lease for 1 MW of capacity.
• Represented an alternative energy data center developer in negotiating a data center lease and developing a data center campus for a Fortune 50 company.
• Represented a battery storage company as tenant in lease negotiations for up to 40 battery storage facilities in New York City.

Project Finance & Energy Infrastructure

• Served as lead real estate counsel to the US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office in negotiating loan guarantee agreements for large-scale project finance matters involving alternative energy technology.
• Advised on the real estate aspects of financing the construction of a $1.2 billion solar panel manufacturing facility in Georgia.
• Advised on the real estate aspects of financing a $1.2 billion potash development in Michigan.
• Advised on the real estate aspects of financing a $1 billion alternative fuel development and distribution project in Montana.

Real Estate Finance

• Represented a real estate private equity firm in a $250 million warehouse credit facility supporting the acquisition of nine industrial properties across six jurisdictions.
• Represented a real estate private equity firm in a $200 million warehouse credit facility supporting the acquisition of seven industrial properties across five jurisdictions.
• Represented a real estate private equity firm in the $240 million refinancing of a 16-property industrial portfolio spanning eight jurisdictions.
• Represented a national fresh food and indoor farming company in a $150 million refinancing involving three owned and seven leased properties across seven jurisdictions.
• Represented an alternative asset management firm in connection with a consensual foreclosure and $200 million refinancing involving four multifamily assets.
• Represented a real estate firm in a $67 million refinancing of a mixed-use development.
• Represented a family office in a financing package consisting of a $105 million senior construction loan and a $30 million mezzanine construction loan for the ground-up development of industrial and retail properties.
• Represented a developer in a $45 million construction loan for the ground-up development of a self-storage facility.

Acquisitions & Dispositions

• Represented a real estate investor in the $300 million acquisition of a Class A office building.
• Represented a real estate fund in the $25 million acquisition of an industrial development site.
• Advised developers, owners, and investors on purchases and sales of commercial properties and development sites, including transactions involving related financing, joint venture, and infrastructure considerations.