Watson Farley & Williams is an international law firm focused on the energy, transport and infrastructure sectors. With offices in Athens, Bangkok, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanoi, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo, more than 650 lawyers work in integrated teams to provide clients around the world with commercially focused, practical legal advice.
Data centres have long since transcended their role as mere IT infrastructure – they are critical economic infrastructure and a core investment theme for institutional capital worldwide. Watson Farley & Williams advises investors, developers and operators across a wide range of transactions in this sector – from M&A and joint ventures to financing transactions, real estate matters and construction and development projects – and understands the legal, regulatory and structural challenges at first hand. Through our membership of the German Datacenter Association, we look forward to actively shaping industry dialogue, contributing transactional and regulatory perspectives, and supporting the sustainable development of Germany as a leading data centre location.