Jeffrey Moerdler

Partner | Chair at Haynes & Boone

Speaker

Jeff Moerdler is chair of the Haynes Boone Data Centers and Digital Infrastructure Practice and a realestate partner in the New York office. He has more than 40 years’ experience in general commercial realestate law. Jeff’s real estate practice includes acquisitions, sales, development, leasing, and borrower’sside financing. Jeff also has a particular focus on real estate challenges facing communications,technology and energy companies, and represents property owners and telecom companies in telecomreal estate matters, particularly in data center development, acquisitions, sales, leases, colocationagreements and service level agreements. His clients include both large national companies andsmaller, local clients, and includes representation of landlords and tenants in all types of leases;counseling owners and developers in the acquisition, sale, joint venture, development, and renovation ofproperty as well as sale-leaseback transactions; advising lenders and borrowers in commercial loans;and the representation of all parties in real estate litigation. He is actively involved in settling realestate, partnership, and inter-family disputes. He also represents many not-for-profit entities and isactive in health care, senior living, and educational real estate.

During the past 35 years, Jeff has developed considerable experience in the intersection of real estatewith communications, technology, and energy issues. He has extensive experience representinglandlords, tenants, developers, and communications service providers in the leasing, purchase, sale,and financing of data centers, colocation facilities, radio and television broadcast antennas, distributedand in-building wireless systems, rooftop antennas, and fiber-optic transactions as well as the wiring ofbuildings for broadband communications access. Jeff has also negotiated thousands of data centerleases, master services agreements, colocation agreements and service level agreements, rooftop andcellular antenna leases, inside wiring agreements, and antenna tower leases throughout the country –covering over 500 million square feet.

He has also devoted a considerable portion of his practice to power and energy issues related to realestate and other technology matters, including large solar and wind installations, battery storagefacilities, and bulk power purchases.

Jeff is a frequent speaker on real estate, data center, and telecom topics around the country. He isFellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and on the faculty of the Advanced CommercialLeasing Institute. He regularly speaks as a panelist at data center, digital infrastructure and real estateconference around the United States. In addition, he is regularly quoted in the New York Times, the Wall treet Journal, Bisnow, Commercial Property News, Real Estate Weekly, and other publications. He coauthored the first treatise chapter on telecom real law for Powell on Real Property in 1999.

Jeff has previously served in numerous governmental positions, including as a Commissioner of the PortAuthority of New York and New Jersey, a member of the New York State Banking Board, a member of theNew York State Financial Control Board, a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of theAppellate Division of the First Department of the New York State Supreme Court, Assistant to the FirstDeputy Mayor of the City of New York, and assistant to the Deputy Borough President of the Borough ofManhattan. From 1981 to 1982, Jeff served as a law clerk to the Honorable Charles L. Brieant, USDistrict Judge, and later Chief Judge, for the Southern District of New York.

Jeff is also an emergency medical technician on his local volunteer ambulance and President of his localchapter, as well as having served for 8 years on the Board of Trustees of the umbrella organization whichis the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States.