Greenberg Traurig’s Kemal Hawa and Elizabeth Dominguez Yaeger to Speak at DICE South 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. (PRWEB) July 20, 2023 -- Shareholders Kemal Hawa and Elizabeth Dominguez Yaeger, of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s Washington, D.C. office, will speak at DICE South 2023 Aug. 2 at 8 a.m. CT at the Westin in Dallas, Texas.
Hawa serves as co-chair of the Digital Infrastructure, Data Center and Cloud Computing Industry Group and will moderate the panel “Southern Shifts: Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Data Centers in the South.” The panel will discuss how “in 2022, the Dallas-Fort Worth market hit a record amount of 272MW of absorption. The Dallas market has also experienced a land rush across all asset types, including data centers. How are these dynamics, plus the cost of capital affecting development in 2023? What are the implications and where are the opportunities today and in the next 1-3 years?” Panelists include Raul Martynek, CEO, Databank; Jeremy Pease, CEO, Colohouse; Rob Morris, CEO, Skybox Datacenters; and Eddie Schutter, managing partner, LuxML.
Hawa represents many of the world’s largest private equity firms, infrastructure funds, real estate investors, and lenders across a broad range of transactions in the digital infrastructure sector domestically and internationally, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), investments, financing arrangements, joint ventures, and development projects. Hawa also represents dozens of companies throughout the digital infrastructure and telecommunications, media, and technology industry, including many of the world’s largest data center operators, telecommunications carriers, tower companies, Cloud providers, fiber providers, media companies, submarine cable operators, fintech companies, wireless and international carriers, Internet service providers, satellite companies, equipment manufacturers, and electric utilities. In addition to M&A and financing transactions, he also represents companies in connection with a full spectrum of other transactions globally, including the negotiation of data center leases and colocation agreements, telecommunications master service agreements, licensing deals, and other commercial transactions.
Yaeger, a Shareholder in the firm’s Real Estate Practice, will speak on the panel “Green is the New Black: How to keep up with Data Center Sustainability and what’s the Most Feasible Path Forward?” The panel will discuss how “sustainability is no longer a trend, but a permanent piece of the development and management process and the actionable, feasible steps that can be implemented.” Panelists include Stuart Lawrence, VP, Product Innovation & Sustainability, Stream Data Centers; David McCall, VP, Innovation, QTS; Jim McDonald, Co-founder & irector, Environmental Impact, MIRATECH Corporation; Rika Nakazawa, Group VP, Connected Industry & Head of Sustainability, NTT;Undra (Andre) Patrick, Data Center Mission Critical Engineering Delivery, Enercon; and Lily Yusupova, Strategic Account Executive, Schneider Electric who will serve as moderator.
Yaeger represents private equity firms, lenders, real estate funds, and data infrastructure owners and operators across a broad range of domestic and international transactions in the real estate, digital infrastructure, and telecommunication sectors, including real estate asset acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, financing, data center leases, colocation agreements, and telecommunication master service agreements. Yaeger also advises clients on affordable housing transactions, including the tax credit syndications of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and financings involving tax-exempt and taxable bond financings for the development, operation, and maintenance of affordable multifamily properties.
About Greenberg Traurig: Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2650 attorneys in 45 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm is a 2022 BTI “Highly Recommended Law Firm” for superior client service and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 500. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 5.0 Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab. The firm is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy program and is a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono. Web: http://www.gtlaw.com.
Mel Brooks, Greenberg Traurig, http://gtlaw.com, +1 212.801.6543, [email protected]
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