Sam 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 data centers and other AI infrastructure, having advised  on over $100 billion of data center transactions since 2021, including numerous acquisitions, sales, joint ventures and debt financings. He has played a central role in several of the industry’s most significant transactions, helping shape the direction of the data center market. 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 2024.

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
  • Realty Income Corporation’s $800 million preferred equity investment in the real estate of CityCenter, comprised 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
• Data center developer in connection with its $1.5 billion YieldCo joint venture for the recapitalization of three stabilized hyperscale data centers located in Northern Virginia
• Data center developer in connection with its $700 million construction financing of a hyperscale data center in Wyoming
• Data center developer in connection with its $732 million CMBS financing of a hyperscale data center in Arizona
• Private equity sponsor in connection with over $8 billion in joint ventures with a data center developer for the development of numerous hyperscale data center campuses across the US
• Private equity sponsor in connection with its $800 million acquisition of a hyperscale data center in Ohio structured as a forward sale
• Data center developer in connection with its $1.2 billion joint venture with a private equity sponsor to develop a hyperscale data center in New Jersey
• Major real estate developer in connection with creation of new data center platform
• 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.