Profil
Joshua B. Forman is a member of the Corporate Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Miami office. Joshua’s experience includes commercial, tax, regulatory, and bankruptcy matters, specifically focusing on data center expansion, operations, and transit services, including the purchase and sale of terrestrial and subsea fiber access and interconnection in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America.
Joshua has deep in-house experience, having served as senior vice president and general counsel at Netrality Data Centers, where he was responsible for the organization’s legal department and providing strategic corporate and commercial legal advice to the executive leadership team, and providing legal advice on a wide range of domestic telecommunications matters. As general counsel and chief compliance officer at GlobeNet, he served on the executive leadership team and acted as the secretary to the board of directors, providing counsel regarding virtually all aspects of transactions, from assisting with due diligence and deal structuring, negotiating and drafting transaction documents, to overseeing the attainment of U.S. and non-U.S. regulatory approvals. As corporate counsel for mergers and acquisitions at TouchSuite, he structured U.S. and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions in the merchant services industry.
Expertise
Erfahrung
- Oversaw the development, construction, expansion and operation of multiple data centers and cable landing stations inside both the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America, while leading negotiations with various suppliers in bringing the facilities to completion.°
- Negotiated multiple master services agreements, colocation agreements, landing party agreements, swap agreements and network services agreements with various hyperscalers, carriers and internet service providers while representing various operators of both data centers and fiber networks.°
- Served as lead attorney for a company during multiple subsea and terrestrial cable deployments, including the Malbec Cable System, managing all aspects of the transaction with suppliers and co-owners from pre to post build.°
- Led a company, in partnership with Banco BTG Pactual (Brazil's largest investment bank), through a successful bid process to acquire a controlling ownership stake in Brazil's largest fiber network.°
- Managed negotiations and supported the executive leadership team in resolving large-scale disputes with third party providers and resellers, all who made up a critical part of the company's ecosystem.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Forman prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
- Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Netrality Data Centers, 2022-2023
- GlobeNet, 2016-2022
- General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, 2018-2022
- Legal Director & Senior Counsel, 2017-2018
- U.S. Corporate Counsel – United States & Bermuda, 2016-2017
- Corporate Counsel – Mergers & Acquisitions, TouchSuite, 2013-2016
- Judicial Intern, Hon. Alan S. Gold, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 2012
- Judicial Intern, Hon. James E.C. Perry, Florida Supreme Court, 2012
- Judicial Intern, Hon. William M. Hoeveler, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 2012
- Judicial Intern, Hon. Chris M. McAliley, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 2011
Anerkennung durch den Markt
- Member, Association of Corporate Counsel – South Florida Chapter, 2013-2023
- President, 2014-2016
- Board Member, 2013-2019
- Member, Florida Bar, Present
Ausbildung
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J.D., cum laude, St. Thomas University School of Law
- Managing Editor, St. Thomas Law Review
- B.B.A., Finance, The George Washington University, School of Business
- Florida