TOKYO – Sept. 21, 2021 – Joel Rothstein, chair of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s Asia Real Estate Practice, was a featured speaker at the 2021 Mingtiandi Data Centre Investment Forum. Rothstein participated in a panel titled, “Data Centre Investment in Asia,” which took place on Sept. 7, 2021. A recording can be viewed on demand on Mingtiandi’s website.
The Data Centre Investment Forum, a virtual event aired on Mingtiandi’s “MTD TV” video platform, comprises several panels during the month of September featuring leading experts in the data centre and cloud industries discussing critical issues and trends defining the industry in Asia.
The “Data Centre Investment in Asia” panel, hosted by Mingtiandi Founder Michael Cole, discussed how “the regional boom in data centres shows no sign of fading as mobile data usage and demand for hyperscale cloud services continue to rise,” as well as the “investment landscape in one of Asian real estate’s most dynamic asset classes,” according to the forum’s website. During the panel discussion, Rothstein commented among other things, on how real estate investors, including private equity funds and developers, new to data centres projects need to approach the asset class using some different tools, techniques, and strategies than typically used in real estate deals. He also commented on how data privacy and data localization laws across Asia have and will impact the industry.
Rothstein is an international real estate and structured finance lawyer based in Greenberg Traurig’s Tokyo, Shanghai, and New York offices. He advises investment banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, real estate developers, and investors across all major Asia markets, with a focus on Greater China, Japan, and South Korea.
Rothstein also leads the firm’s practice in advising Asia-based outbound cross-border investors in structuring, implementing, and managing equity and debt investments into the United States, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
About Greenberg Traurig’s Asia Practice: Greenberg Traurig’s Asia Practice regularly represents companies throughout China, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan in their business dealings in the United States and abroad. The firm also advises U.S. and European companies engaging in transactions throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Attorneys provide strategic advice and legal services in connection with mergers and acquisitions, financings and securitization activities, intellectual property, trade and governmental strategies, international dispute resolution, infrastructure and project finance, export controls, and business immigration issues. The practice brings together attorneys based in the firm’s Shanghai, Seoul, and Tokyo offices along with numerous multilingual attorneys from across Greenberg Traurig’s global organization with experience handling client matters in Asia.
About Greenberg Traurig: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (GT) has approximately 2,300 attorneys in 40 locations in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. GT has been recognized for its philanthropic giving, diversity, and innovation, and is consistently among the largest firms in the U.S. on the Law360 400 and among the Top 20 on the Am Law Global 100. The firm is net carbon neutral with respect to its office energy usage and Mansfield Rule 4.0 Plus Certified. Web: www.gtlaw.com