Profilo
Shawn Ronda focuses his practice primarily on digital infrastructure transactions, with a strong background in commercial real estate transactions across various asset classes. Shawn guides clients through virtually all aspects of asset acquisitions and dispositions, data center leasing and facility management agreements, project level and asset financing, and real estate development, with a particular emphasis on the development and operations of data centers throughout the United States, and beyond. Shawn is a trusted legal advisor to market leading developers, operators, institutional clients, private equity companies, investors, and joint venture partners. Shawn’s commercial real estate experience includes single asset and portfolio transactions involving student housing, mixed-use, industrial, and retail projects.
He also advises clients with respect to the real estate and digital infrastructure related aspects of data center campus financings, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures, regularly handling the negotiation of asset purchase agreements, joint venture agreements, and the implementation of related due diligence and property management strategies.
Concentrations
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Digital Infrastructure
- Real estate development
- Real estate finance
Competenze
Esperienze Professionali - Attività Accademiche
- Represented global data center operator in the negotiation and execution of a long-term ground lease and related construction documents for the development of a large data center campus in Texas.
- Represented global data center operator in the negotiation and execution of data center leases and related service level agreements with various hyperscalers and cloud service providers for sites across the United States.
- Represented London-based student housing company in the acquisition of a newly constructed, 796-bed student housing tower in Austin, Texas near the University of Texas.
- Represented a real estate investment and management company in the acquisition and financing of a portfolio of shopping centers throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.
- Represented a developer in the acquisition, development, and financing of multiple parcels of property in Knoxville, Tennessee, for the development of mixed-use properties near the University of Tennessee consisting of retail and residential components, and the negotiation of long-term retail leases for the development with major corporate tenants.
- Represented Chicago-based private equity company in the acquisition of a mixed-use property, including a data center component, in Portland, Oregon, being the largest single asset sale of property in the state for more than five years at the time of sale.°
- Represented a New York-based private equity company in the vertical separation and sale of retail and office components of landmarked property in downtown Chicago for an aggregate sale price of approximately U.S. $350 million.°
- Represented a Chicago-based private equity company in the sale of student housing portfolios valued at U.S. $465 million and U.S. $1 billion, respectively.°
- Represented a religious institution in the approximately U.S. $110 million sale of real property for the development of a multi-tower, mixed-use project in the River North neighborhood of Chicago.°
- Represented a multinational telecommunications company in sale and redevelopment of portions of corporate campus in Schaumburg, Illinois.°
- Represented an American food company in sale and leaseback of portion of industrial site for redevelopment as a mixed-use project along the Chicago riverfront.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Ronda prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Riconoscimenti e Premi
- Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Real Estate, 2022
- "Recommended Lawyer," 2022
- "Other Key Lawyer," 2022
- Board Member, Family Rescue, Inc.
- Chicago Bar Foundation
- Member, Development Committee, 2025-present
- Co-Chair, Fall Benefit, 2025
Formazione
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Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
- Executive Editor, Washington University Law Review
- Diploma di maturità, Cornell University
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois