Samuel Rudik

A Partner in the Firm’s New York office, Sam Rudik regularly represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies on a broad range of real estate and digital infrastructure transactions across a variety of asset classes, including data centers, logistics, hospitality and multifamily.

Sam has a particular focus on the data center sector and has advised on over $75 billion of data center transactions since 2021, including numerous acquisitions, sales, joint ventures and debt financings. His clients include Blackstone and its portfolio companies (including QTS and AirTrunk), CoreWeave, Vantage Data Centers, Cerberus, CIM Group and its portfolio company Novva Data Centers, Town Lane and others.

Sam was recognized as a Law360 “Rising Star” in Real Estate in 2023.

Sam’s representative transactions include:

• Blackstone in numerous transactions, including its:
  
  • $16.1 billion acquisition of AirTrunk, the largest data center platform in the APAC region
  • $12.8 billion acquisition of American Campus Communities
  • $10 billion acquisition of QTS Data Centers
  • $7 billion joint venture with Digital Realty to develop hyperscale data centers in the U.S. and Europe
  • $4.6 billion acquisition of the MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay in a joint venture with MGM Growth Properties, and subsequent sale of Blackstone’s interest to VICI Properties
  • $3.9 billion acquisition of the Aria Resort & Casino and Vdara Hotel & Spa
  • Numerous acquisitions of powered shell data centers

• CIM Group and its portfolio company Novva Data Centers in connection with their entry into a $2 billion construction loan with JPMorgan and Starwood Property Trust to develop a 175 MW data center campus
• QTS Data Centers in numerous project financings for the development of hyperscale data centers
• Town Lane in connection with its joint venture with PowerHouse to develop a 300 MW data center campus
• KKR in connection with its joint venture with Dalan Management to acquire a large multifamily portfolio in Brooklyn 

Sam received his J.D., with honors, in 2016 from the University of Chicago Law School. He received his B.A. in Economics in 2012 from the University of Florida.