プロフィール
Max Sternberg is an Of Counsel in the firm’s global real estate practice and a member of the Digital Infrastructure, Data Center and Cloud Computing Industry Group, based in the London and Washington, D.C., offices and responsible for working with industry teams located in a variety of the firm’s offices in the United States, Asia and Europe.
Max advises U.S., Japanese and other global institutional and private investors on real estate transactions across a range of asset classes, with a particular focus on the acquisition, development and financing of data center properties and other digital infrastructure.
In addition to his data center and digital infrastructure work, Max also advises clients on the development, leasing and financing of logistics facilities, multi-family properties (including affordable housing), master planned communities, industrial properties, hotels and other hospitality projects, student housing, solar power facilities and other commercial real estate assets in the United States, Japan and Europe.
He also has substantial cross-border real estate M&A experience and has represented clients in U.S. office leasing transactions, operational matters in the hospitality industry, and in the negotiation of public-private partnership documentation for the re-development of professional sports facilities.
Concentrations
- Data center development, finance, and operations
- Real estate joint venture formation and structuring
- Cross-border transactions
- Real estate financing
- Property acquisition and disposition
- Asset and property management
- Construction and development
- Leasing
- Hotel and resort finance, development, and management
- Student housing
- Affordable housing
- Public-private partnerships
取扱分野
実績紹介
- Represented a global data center operator in the acquisition of a 60-megawatt hyperscale data center located in Loudoun County, Virginia.
- Represented Sekisui House, Ltd. in its $4.9 billion acquisition of M.D.C. Holdings, Inc., a NYSE listed company and leading U.S. homebuilder.°
- Advised Fidelity Investments in the formation of a joint venture with a Japanese trading house to develop four separate hyperscale data center facilities in Japan.°
- Represented Sekisui House, Ltd. in its $310 million acquisition of U.S. homebuilder Holt Homes and its $495 million acquisition of U.S. homebuilder Chesmar Homes.°
- Acted for a joint venture between Fidelity Investments and a Japanese trading house in the negotiation of non-recourse financing for the development of two hyperscale data center facilities in Japan.°
- Acted for North America Sekisui House, LLC, the U.S. business operations unit and full subsidiary of Sekisui House, Ltd., in the formation of various joint ventures for the development of multi-family residential and mixed-use projects across the United States.°
- Acted for North America Sekisui House, LLC, the U.S. business operations unit and full subsidiary of Sekisui House, Ltd., in the procurement of construction and development financing for various multi-family residential and mixed-use projects across the United States°
- Advised Deutsche Bank AG on multiple non-recourse loan facilities for the construction of large-scale photovoltaic power projects in Japan.°
- Advised a Japanese institutional investor in several joint venture investments in multi-family developments in the southern United States.°
- Advised a Japanese bank in the financing of limited-service hotels in the United States.°
- Acted for a leading U.S. real estate private equity fund in the acquisition and initial financing of a $185 million student housing portfolio in California.°
- Represented Itochu Corporation in its acquisition and joint venture related to acquisition of residential properties in Texas.°
- Acted for a U.S. public pension fund in the leasing of over 500,000 square feet of office space across the United States, including the leasing of over 100,000 square feet to a Fortune 50 manufacturing company for use as its new global headquarters.°
- Represented a leading global hotel operator in the negotiation of third party food and beverage management agreements at several four- and five-star properties throughout the United States.°
- Represented the foreign ministry of a NATO member nation in the negotiation of two leases for office space in the United Statees, including a new Consulate and UN Mission in New York City.°
- Acted for a leading global hotel and resort operator in the negotiation and execution of management documents for hotel-condominium projects in Panama and Canada, allowing the client to succeed as manager to an operator that had been terminated in each instance.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Sternberg prior to him joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
学歴・資格・言語
- 法務博士, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
- B.B.A., Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 米国 イリノイ州