Polsinelli Continues Data Center Platform Growth with Kansas City Shareholder Jason Romero
Polsinelli is pleased to announce that Jason P. Romero has joined the firm’s Kansas City office as a shareholder in its Data Center & Infrastructure Practice, further enhancing the firm’s capabilities in hyperscale and build-to-suit data center leasing, development and other complex digital infrastructure transactions.
Romero advises institutional investors, developers, lenders, technology companies and operators across the full lifecycle of data center development, including market entry, site selection and acquisition, incentives, government relations, power procurement, joint ventures, project finance, leasing, construction, insurance, compliance and operations. His experience also includes supporting development of advanced manufacturing, smart industrial, modular production and other mission-critical assets where real estate, energy and technology converge.
“Data center development is moving at a pace that demands more than traditional real estate counsel,” said Korb W. Maxwell, Polsinelli’s Capital Solutions Chair. “Clients are making interconnected decisions about land, power, capital, construction and operations, often under significant time pressure. Jason has worked inside that environment and understands how those decisions affect a project from the outset. That perspective will deepen the practical, business-minded counsel we provide across the data center lifecycle.”
Before joining Polsinelli, Romero held senior executive and legal roles with national data center, artificial intelligence infrastructure and real estate investment companies. He has helped lead the leasing and development of some of the world’s largest AI infrastructure projects and hyperscale campuses, supported next-generation GPU deployments and advised executive teams on growth strategy, operations, financing and legal affairs.
“Polsinelli has the integrated infrastructure platform needed to support data center clients from site selection and power procurement, through leasing, development and operations,” Romero said. “I look forward to working with attorneys across the firm to help clients respond to the rapidly changing demands of the digital infrastructure industry.”
Romero earned his J.D., M.B.A. and M.S. in engineering from the University of Kansas, where he also earned his undergraduate degree.
Polsinelli is a trusted partner to the hyperscalers, developers, utilities, enterprise users and equity sponsors behind the next generation of data centers and energy-intensive infrastructure. From site selection and entitlements to interconnection, incentives and project finance, Polsinelli’s multidisciplinary Data Center & Infrastructure team guides the legal, regulatory and commercial decisions behind today’s most ambitious data center projects. With experience spanning more than 300 data center and network infrastructure projects over the past decade, the group combines strength in project finance, energy, real estate, M&A, technology and regulatory matters to drive data-driven infrastructure development in the industries where it matters.
