Technology moves fast. The infrastructure supporting it moves at an even greater scale.
Data centers, cloud platforms, telecommunications networks, artificial intelligence, SaaS companies, digital assets, and data-driven businesses operate at the intersection of technology, real estate, energy, regulation, intellectual property, privacy, and cybersecurity. The legal issues rarely fit neatly into a single practice area.
Neither do we.
Lex Tecnica’s Cyber-Tech & Data Centers practice provides legal counsel for companies building, operating, financing, and using the infrastructure and technologies powering the digital economy.
Our attorneys understand that technology counsel cannot simply explain the law. They need to understand the business behind the technology, the risks that matter, and how legal decisions affect growth.
Whether you are developing a data center, negotiating a cloud agreement, implementing AI, responding to a cybersecurity incident, or launching a technology company, we help turn complicated legal questions into practical business decisions.
Data centers sit at the center of an increasingly connected economy, supporting cloud computing, AI, financial services, communications, healthcare, entertainment, government, and nearly every other modern industry.
But building and operating digital infrastructure is complicated.
A single data center project may involve land acquisition, development agreements, power procurement, utilities, telecommunications, construction, financing, tax incentives, environmental considerations, regulatory approvals, vendor contracts, intellectual property, security, and ongoing operational agreements.
Lex Tecnica brings these disciplines together.
Data center development & operations
Site acquisition, real estate, and leasing
Colocation & data center service agreements
Technology procurement & vendor agreements
Corporate transactions & strategic partnerships
Intellectual property & technology licensing
Risk allocation & dispute resolution
Cloud & infrastructure agreements
Telecommunications and connectivity
Energy, utilities, and regulatory matters
Lex Tecnica was built by attorneys who understand what it means to operate on the business side of technology.
Founder and Managing Partner Sam Castor spent more than 15 years in the technology sector and served in senior legal and executive roles at Switch, a global data center and technology infrastructure company, ultimately serving as Executive Vice President of Policy and Deputy General Counsel. He has negotiated billions of dollars in intellectual property and infrastructure transactions and brings the perspective of someone who has sat inside the companies outside counsel is hired to advise.
That experience shapes how Lex Tecnica approaches technology law.
Every organization that collects, stores, processes, or transmits data faces legal risk.
Lex Tecnica helps businesses prepare before an incident occurs and respond when one does.
Artificial intelligence is changing how companies create products, make decisions, interact with customers, manage employees, and use information.
It is also creating legal questions faster than lawmakers and courts can answer them.
Technology businesses run on contracts.
The details of those contracts can determine who owns the technology, who controls the data, who bears the risk when something fails, and what happens when a business relationship ends.
A cybersecurity incident can create obligations involving customers, employees, regulators, insurers, vendors, and business partners, often within a matter of hours.
Our Cyber-Tech attorneys advise clients on cybersecurity planning, privacy compliance, incident response, breach notification requirements, vendor risk, internal policies, and contractual allocation of cybersecurity responsibilities.
We also help businesses navigate an increasingly complex patchwork of privacy laws, including state privacy requirements and regulations governing how organizations collect, use, retain, disclose, and protect personal information.
Lex Tecnica helps businesses evaluate the legal implications of AI adoption, including governance, privacy, intellectual property, vendor agreements, automated decision-making, internal acceptable-use policies, and the risks associated with generative AI tools.
Our attorneys also work with SaaS providers, software developers, technology vendors, and their customers on licensing, subscriptions, terms of service, privacy policies, data rights, platform liability, and technology transactions.
We approach emerging technology with the same philosophy we bring to every business matter: understand what the client is trying to accomplish first, then build the legal structure around that objective.
Lex Tecnica drafts and negotiates agreements involving software, SaaS, cloud services, data centers, telecommunications, intellectual property, vendors, strategic partnerships, technology procurement, and digital services.
We focus on the provisions that matter in the real world: ownership, licensing, data use, confidentiality, security obligations, service levels, indemnification, limitation of liability, termination rights, and dispute resolution.
A technology company may simultaneously need corporate counsel, intellectual property protection, regulatory advice, real estate assistance, employment guidance, financing support, or litigation.
That is where the broader Lex Tecnica model becomes valuable.
Our Cyber-Tech & Data Centers practice works alongside attorneys across the firm in business law, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, regulatory compliance, and other disciplines. Clients can access the experience they need without assembling a different legal team for every issue.
For companies that need ongoing support, Lex Tecnica can also serve as Fractional General Counsel, providing an experienced legal team that operates more like an extension of the business than traditional outside counsel.
The companies building it cannot wait for the law to catch up before making decisions.
Lex Tecnica helps businesses navigate that uncertainty with attorneys who understand technology, infrastructure, risk, and the realities of running a company.
From the physical infrastructure housing the world’s data to the software and AI systems operating inside it, we help clients build, protect, negotiate, and grow.
