Alex Jackins is a senior of counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. Alex represents real estate investors, owners, developers, and operators in negotiating joint venture agreements, partnership agreements, purchase and sale agreements, development, management and leasing agreements for commercial real estate assets, with a particular focus on digital infrastructure. Particularly, Alex represents owners and operators in the negotiation of data center leases, colocation agreements, and master services agreements.
Alex also advises real estate investors and owners in financing commercial real estate projects in compliance with Islamic law through the use of Shariah compliant ijarah and murabaha structures.
Alex is recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers USA in Band 3 for Real Estate in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
His representative matters include:*
- Represented various data center operators in the negotiations of colocation and data center leases and service level agreements with a hyperscale and enterprise customers for data halls located within the United States and abroad.
- Represent data center developers in the acquisition and development of land, raw and improved, for development as a data center facility.
- Represent data center owners and operators in the acquisition and disposition of data center assets throughout the U.S.
- Represented a data center developer in the negotiation of a joint venture to acquire approximately 22.6 acres of land in Loudoun County, Virginia for the construction of a data center development. The land was purchased in part through use of condemnation proceeds received from adjacent lands owned by the joint venture along with 1031 exchange proceeds. The matter also included negotiation of a joint venture agreement, various entity formation documents, a purchase and sale agreement, a tenant-in-common agreement, distribution of membership interest agreements, a development management agreement, and other ancillary documents.
- Represent a real estate investment company in the acquisitions of office, multi-family, and retail properties throughout the U.S. The transactions often include the negotiation of a Shariah compliant financing facility through use of either an ijarah or murabaha structure.
- Represented a government contractor in the negotiation of build-to-leases in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Oklahoma to support facility needs for a large government contract. The transactions involved the negotiation of cooperative endeavor agreements with state and local municipalities to fund construction of the projects.
Alex received his Juris Doctor in 2000 from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law, and his undergraduate degree in 1992 from University of Maryland. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia.
*Includes representations prior to Alex’s association with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
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Credentials
Education:
- Catholic University of America - 2000 Juris Doctor
- University of Maryland - 1991 Bachelor of Science
Admissions:
- District of Columbia Bar
- Virginia Bar