Altern8 Legal
Data Centre Lawyers – Interim / Fractional / Consulting Opportunities
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Help Ambitious Businesses Build, Scale, and Navigate Change
Altern8 Legal was built around a belief that ambitious businesses should be able to access exceptional senior legal expertise flexibly, while experienced lawyers should have greater ownership over how, where, and with whom they work.
We provide bespoke legal solutions to our clients through our exceptional pool of senior lawyers, delivering strategic legal support in an efficient and flexible way.
Developing and operating a data centre brings together land, construction, power, finance, and complex customer relationships. Businesses need lawyers who understand how those elements connect - and who can help move projects and negotiations forward.
We are looking to connect with experienced lawyers who have worked in-house for data centre businesses or advised data centre clients in private practice, and who are interested in interim, fractional, or project-based consulting opportunities.
We are particularly interested in experience across one or more of the following areas:
- Land acquisition and development: site acquisitions, options, leases, title issues, planning and permitting, and utility rights.
- Construction and projects: design and build agreements, contractor appointments, procurement, fit-out, change control and operational contracts.
- Power and energy: grid connections, power procurement, PPAs and associated energy infrastructure.
- Commercial and customer contracts: colocation agreements, master services agreements, hyperscaler contracts, service levels and risk allocation.
- Corporate and finance: acquisitions, joint ventures, project financing and investment in data centre portfolios.
- Operational and regulatory matters: environmental obligations, sustainability, technology procurement, cybersecurity and resilience.
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You do not need to cover every area; we welcome both specialists with deep expertise in a particular workstream and broader commercial lawyers with substantial data centre sector experience.
Typical engagements might include supporting a developer through site acquisition and construction, owning a demanding customer negotiation, providing additional capacity during expansion or investment, or simply stepping into an interim or fractional senior legal role.
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This could suit lawyers from data centre operators, developers, infrastructure investors, or law firms who enjoy hands-on work, can operate independently, and are comfortable working closely with legal, development, construction, commercial and finance teams. Experience coordinating advisers across jurisdictions would also be valuable.
Working with Altern8 Legal
With Altern8, you retain ownership over how you work and the engagements you undertake - adding meaningful value to exciting businesses in a way that suits you.
This advert represents our continuing search for exceptional consultants rather than one specific assignment. The location, duration, working pattern, and scope of each engagement will vary according to the client’s requirements.
Our consultant network is non-exclusive, so you remain free to undertake work elsewhere, subject to your availability, existing commitments, and any applicable conflicts of interest.
If this sounds like the kind of work you would enjoy, we would be pleased to hear from you. Please apply with your CV or LinkedIn profile.
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