Jack Morgan
AssociateJack Morgan advises regional and national developers, owners, operators, and investors in a broad range of sophisticated real estate transactions and development matters, with a particular emphasis on digital infrastructure and mixed-use projects. He has a solution-oriented approach to structuring complex ownership and governance regimes for large data center campuses throughout the United States. He represents clients on the entire development life cycle in a variety of asset classes.
Jack plans, negotiates, and drafts condominium documents, reciprocal easement agreements, development agreements, master services agreements, leases, licenses, fiber easements, and related instruments and also leads due diligence for property acquisitions, joint ventures, and recaps. He counsels developers and owners on legal issues related to horizontal and vertical ownership and structures management, operation, and governance regimes, aligning clients' development goals with organizational, joint venture, financing, risk management, and tax considerations.
Jack advises on unique property entitlement, permitting, utilities, and site planning and implementation issues in northern Virginia, elsewhere in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and in other premier data center markets throughout the United States. He also counsels on approvals required from public and private entities in connection with engineering, construction, and development of onsite and offsite improvements and associated infrastructure.
EXPERIENCE
- Master developer in negotiation of development agreements, reciprocal easement agreements, and implementation of a complex governance structure for a long-term phased buildout of a large transit oriented mixed-use development project along the Silver Line of the Washington DC region subway
- Master developer in structuring a multi-tiered master property owners association and land condominium regime (including a master property owners association and several sub-condominiums) for the phased buildout of a data center campus that will consume more than 1 gigawatt (GW) of power, located in Stafford County, Virginia
- Master developer in planning and negotiating complex governance regimes for multiple data center campuses across the United States
- Master developer in structuring multiple complex governance regimes for data center campuses across the United States, including for the phased buildout of a data center campus located in Prince William County, Virginia
- Owner in structuring a multi-tiered land condominium regime and power allocation from a shared substation for purposes of investing into a joint venture for a build-to-suit artificial intelligence (AI) data center campus located in Chesterfield County, Virginia
- Investor in structuring a land condominium regime and power allocation from a shared substation for purposes of investing in a joint venture for a data center campus located in Loudoun County, Virginia
- Fiber optic services provider in obtaining approvals for a multi-state fiber optic conduit project
- Colocation providers in creating a master service agreement (MSA) and service order forms, as well as entering into colocation agreements with customers
- Owners and operators in negotiating colocation data center leases and licenses
- J.D., University of Richmond School of Law
- B.A., Radford University
magna cum laude
