Greenberg Traurig’s Kemal Hawa to Co-Moderate Panel at DICE Rockies

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Aug. 13, 2024 -Kemal Hawa, co-chair of the Digital Infrastructure, Data Center and Cloud Computing Industry Group of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, will co-moderate a panel at the 2024 Data Center Investment Conference & Expo (DICE): Rockies Aug. 20 discussing trends in the growing Rocky Mountain digital infrastructure market.

The panel, titled "The State of Rocky Mountain and Top Tier Data Center Markets: Development Trends, Dynamics and Challenges Ahead," will examine how the region shows a great potential for growth in the digital infrastructure space due to new supply coming online, robust fiber availability, cheap existing power, and an increasing concentration of AI and tech companies.

Hawa, a member of the firm's Washington, D.C., office, will co-moderate the panel with Albert Slap, President and Co-Founder of Coastal Risk Consulting LLC. The panelists include Brian Cox, CEO, STACK Infrastructure, and David Dunn, COO of H5 Data Centers.

Hawa represents many of the world's largest private equity firms, infrastructure funds, real estate investors, and lenders across a broad range of transactions in the digital infrastructure sector domestically and internationally, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), investments, financing arrangements, joint ventures, and development projects. Hawa also represents dozens of companies throughout the digital infrastructure and telecommunications, media, and technology industry, including many of the world's largest data center operators, telecommunications carriers, tower companies, cloud providers, fiber providers, media companies, submarine cable operators, fintech companies, wireless and international carriers, internet service providers, satellite companies, equipment manufacturers, and electric utilities. In addition to M&A and financing transactions, he represents companies in connection with a full spectrum of other transactions globally, including the negotiation of data center leases and colocation agreements, telecommunications master service agreements, licensing deals, and other commercial transactions.

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