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Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure
Meitar’s Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure Practice is the leading practice in Israel advising on the development, financing, operation, and transactions of mission-critical digital infrastructure assets. The practice is regularly engaged with complex and strategically significant data center projects reflecting Israel’s growing role in AI-driven high density computing, cloud services and regional digital connectivity.
Our practice advises the full digital – infrastructure ecosystem, including data-center developers and operators, AI-compute platforms, infrastructure and private-equity funds, banks and other financial institutions, utilities and grid operators, connectivity providers, technology OEMs and service providers, and enterprises with mission-critical compute requirements, including financial services, healthcare, academia, and defense sectors. Meitar’s leading team advise on inbound investment into Israel, outbound expansion by Israeli platforms, joint ventures, platform builds, and complex cross-border transactions.
Meitar provides comprehensive legal advice across the full lifecycle of data center projects, including market entry and feasibility, site strategy and land control, zoning and permitting, environmental and planning processes, energy strategy and grid interfaces (including staged interconnection and temporary power solutions), construction of dedicated power plants, purchase of “green energy,” M&A and investment structuring, joint ventures, project finance and structured debt, capital markets transactions, EPC and O&M contracting, colocation, hosting and cloud arrangements, customer and operator commercial frameworks, and exit readiness. The firm’s advice is structured to address the key execution risks in the sector, including time-to-power, permitting sequencing, regulatory alignment, and financing bankability.
The practice draws on Meitar’s leading capabilities across corporate and M&A, real estate and development, energy and utilities, finance and capital markets, regulatory and public law, commercial and technology, intellectual property, privacy and cybersecurity, labor and employment, tax, and dispute resolution, enabling integrated execution for capital-intensive and regulated infrastructure assets and meeting the expectations of international investors, lenders, hyperscalers, AI cloud providers (neo-clouds), and operators in complex cross-border environments.
In addition, Meitar provides differentiated advisory services reflecting the evolving nature of the sector, including technology-integration advice for AI-driven and high-density environments, guidance on data governance, data localization, and sovereign-cloud requirements, regulatory and policy strategy in connection with national digital-infrastructure initiatives, workforce and immigration structuring for 24/7 operations, and dispute-avoidance and continuity-focused frameworks for mission-critical infrastructure.
