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Max Sternberg ‡

Max Sternberg is an Of Counsel in the firm’s global real estate practice and a member of the Digital Infrastructure, Data Center and Cloud Computing Industry Group, based in the London and Washington, D.C., offices and responsible for working with industry teams located in a variety of the firm’s offices in the United States, Asia and Europe.

Max advises U.S., Japanese and other global institutional and private investors on real estate transactions across a range of asset classes, with a particular focus on the acquisition, development and financing of data center properties and other digital infrastructure.

In addition to his data center and digital infrastructure work, Max also advises clients on the development, leasing and financing of logistics facilities, multi-family properties (including affordable housing), master planned communities, industrial properties, hotels and other hospitality projects, student housing, solar power facilities and other commercial real estate assets in the United States, Japan and Europe.

He also has substantial cross-border real estate M&A experience and has represented clients in U.S. office leasing transactions, operational matters in the hospitality industry, and in the negotiation of public-private partnership documentation for the re-development of professional sports facilities.

 Admitted in the District of Columbia and Illinois. Not admitted in England and Wales.

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.
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