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Bergan advises investors, developers, and owners on complex real estate transactions, including data center developments and other large-scale infrastructure projects.
Vinson & Elkins today announced that Peter C. Bergan, Jr. has joined the firm as a New York-based partner in its Real Estate Industry practice.
Bergan focuses on data center assets, advising clients across the full lifecycle of transactions, including construction, M&A, leasing, customer arrangements, and other commercial contracts. He has also advised on complex, multibillion-dollar strategic partnerships, cross-border acquisitions, and financings spanning industrial, mining, retail, hospitality, and multifamily and single-family assets nationwide.
“Peter’s experience representing some of the nation’s largest technology and data center companies perfectly complements our fast-growing Data Center practice, which is helping clients build and scale power and data center projects globally,” said Kaam Sahely, Vinson & Elkins partner and co-head of the firm’s Transactional group.
“Vinson & Elkins represents many of the most active participants in the data center industry, and I look forward to growing my practice with a firm known for its market-leading infrastructure, power, and energy platforms,” Bergan said.
Bergan earned a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University and a Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Vinson & Elkins’ Real Estate lawyers represent all facets of the real estate industry on every side of the table — including banks, insurance companies, private equity firms, and other financial institutions — making the firm uniquely positioned to guide clients and deliver strategic solutions.
The firm’s Data Center practice brings deep, cross-disciplinary experience to the transactions driving the AI data center business: joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions, equity investments, debt financings, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts, master lease and service agreements, build-to-suit arrangements, site management agreements, service-level agreements, and more.
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For more than a century, Vinson & Elkins has provided outstanding client service across important industries that drive the global economy. Built on a strong culture of collaboration across 14 offices worldwide, V&E lawyers are committed to excellence, offering clients decades of legal experience in handling transactions, investments, projects and disputes across the globe. Learn more by visiting www.velaw.com or connect with us on LinkedIn.
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