Latham & Watkins Advises Meta in Strategic Venture With BlackRock to Develop Data Center in El Paso

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) and BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) has announced a venture to develop and own a data center campus in El Paso, Texas.

Latham & Watkins LLP represents Meta in the transaction with a corporate and real estate team led by partners Ann Buckingham, Hilary Strong, and Greg Roussel, and counsel Alexandra McArthur, with associates Daniel Eyal, Kimberly Legate Ford, Adrianna Robakowski, Eirene Kim, Kirstin Chubb, Liviya James, Katie Raya, and Austin Urbach. Advice was also provided on antitrust matters by partners David Little, Kelly Fayne, and Patrick English, with associates Nayantara Ravichandran, Milo Noone, Evan Omi, and Helen Lee; on regulatory and compliance matters by partners Erin Brown Jones, Les Carnegie, Andrew Galdes, Paul Rosen, and counsel Zachary Eddington, with associates Eric Green, Fiza Khan, Anika Satpathy, Adam Schupack, and Amulya Vadapalli; on energy regulatory matters by partner Natasha Gianvecchio, with associate Tanya Khiatani; on benefits matters by counsel Aryeh Zuber; on finance matters by partner Brian Rock; and on intellectual property matters by associate Andrew Abokhair.