Real Estate

Quarles & Brady’s Data Center Practice has experience and commitment to owners, operators and tenants to fully understand the unique complexities and intricacies involved in data center projects. Operated like no other class of real estate, a data center that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year requires unique and complex systems, including massive amounts of power, cooling, bandwidth and security.

In view of the recent rapid growth in demand for data centers and the subtleties and complexities inherent in their development and operations, data center owners and users alike require the services of legal counsel with deep expertise in the industry and experience with the myriad issues that characterize the business. Quarles operates as an integrated business unit across all seven U.S. offices, calling upon resources throughout the organization as needed to serve our clients as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

Services Provided to Clients

Our capabilities include:

• Initial planning of data center locations.
  
  
• Acquisition of raw land for data center development, existing structures for redevelopment as data centers and/or existing operational data centers.
  
  
• Land use and zoning.
  
  
• Negotiation of architect design agreements, construction contracts and other related documentation for the development of data center properties.
  
  
• Environmental issues unique to data centers.
  
  
• Construction, term, mezzanine and revolving credit line financing.
  
  
• Preparation and negotiation of agreements relating to data center operations such as electrical power agreements, fiber connectivity agreements and licenses, master services agreements, service level agreements (SLAs), IRU agreements and managed service agreements.
  
  
• Preparation and negotiation (for owners and users) of data center lease agreements and colocation agreements for purpose-built data center properties and within office buildings.

For more information on how we can help with your data center needs, please contact Michael D. Rechtin Jr. at (312) 715-5016 / or Theodore I. Yi at (312) 715-5209 / .