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Shawn K. Ronda

Shawn Ronda focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions and digital infrastructure transactions. Shawn guides clients through virtually all aspects of real estate acquisitions and dispositions, real estate and data center leasing, finance, and real estate development, with an emphasis on development and operations for data center, student housing, mixed-use, and retail projects in the Chicago area, throughout the United States, and beyond. Shawn regularly represents developers, operators, institutional clients, private equity companies, investors, and joint venture partners.

Shawn regularly advises clients on portfolio transactions across a wide variety of asset classes. He also advises clients with respect to the real estate and digital infrastructure related aspects of mergers and acquisitions, as well as joint ventures, regularly handling the negotiation of asset purchase agreements and merger documents, joint venture agreements, and the implementation of related due diligence strategies and activities.

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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