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Joshua Forman

Joshua B. Forman is a member of the Corporate Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Miami office. Joshua’s experience includes commercial, tax, regulatory, and bankruptcy matters, specifically focusing on data center expansion, operations, and transit services, including the purchase and sale of terrestrial and subsea fiber access and interconnection in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America.

Joshua has deep in-house experience, having served as senior vice president and general counsel at Netrality Data Centers, where he was responsible for the organization’s legal department and providing strategic corporate and commercial legal advice to the executive leadership team, and providing legal advice on a wide range of domestic telecommunications matters. As general counsel and chief compliance officer at GlobeNet, he served on the executive leadership team and acted as the secretary to the board of directors, providing counsel regarding virtually all aspects of transactions, from assisting with due diligence and deal structuring, negotiating and drafting transaction documents, to overseeing the attainment of U.S. and non-U.S. regulatory approvals. As corporate counsel for mergers and acquisitions at TouchSuite, he structured U.S. and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions in the merchant services industry.

Data center developers often struggle with lengthy and costly regulatory hurdles at both state and federal levels. In a move to simplify this process, the Trump administration has issued an executive order and introduced the “America’s AI Action Plan,” both designed to accelerate federal permitting and reshape environmental review frameworks for new data centers and supporting infrastructure.
Continue Reading Trump Administration Seeks to Streamline Federal Permitting for Data Centers with New Executive Order and Action Plan

The demand for artificial intelligence-driven applications, cloud services, and big data analytics is rapidly increasing across Asia, with several major hyperscalers in the region expanding their digital infrastructure footprints. Although hyperscalers have made substantial investments in the construction and expansion of their own digital infrastructure, such efforts have not kept pace with the accelerating demand for capacity.
Continue Reading Demand for Data Centers Surges in Asia Amid Global AI Boom

Jaret Davis and Joshua Forman delve into Miami’s role in tech growth, emphasizing the critical importance of data centers. They explore how AI, IoT, and remote work drive demand, shaping the future of digital infrastructure and solidifying Miami as a major U.S. tech hub.
Continue Reading Building the Blueprint: The Foundation of South Florida’s Tech Evolution Part 3