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Greenberg Traurig Represents Seller in Japan Hyperscale Data Center Sale

TOKYO – Dec. 2, 2025 – Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP advised the seller on the sale of a hyperscale data center in Inzai, Japan, to a Singapore-listed real estate investment trust.

Completed in September, the data center is fully leased to a global hyperscale user. The sale, which closed Nov. 19, is among the first asset-level sale transactions involving an operational, fully leased hyperscale data center in Japan.

Greenberg Traurig Real Estate attorneys Max Sternberg, of counsel in the firm’s London and Chicago offices, and Ayako Kawano, a shareholder in Tokyo, served as sole counsel to the seller in the transaction. The Greenberg Traurig deal team also included Northern Virginia Corporate Shareholder Chelsea Pullen, Asia Real Estate Practice Chair Joel H. Rothstein, and Tokyo Corporate Associate Simon Qingqin Chen.

The attorneys are members of Greenberg Traurig’s Digital Infrastructure Group, which serves clients in the data center, digital infrastructure, and telecommunications industries. Leveraging the firm’s global platform, the group comprises more than 110 attorneys from multiple practice areas worldwide, including Corporate, Energy & Natural Resources, Environmental, and Real Estate, to advise clients on a wide range of transactions, from hyperscale leasing and data center developments to land acquisitions and joint ventures.