A&O Shearman advises Global AI on strategic partnership with HUMAIN

This transaction seeks to accelerate the expansion of AI infrastructure globally, with plans to deliver large-scale AI data center and compute capacity in the United States. The facilities will provide AI infrastructure services for enterprise, public-sector, and AI-model-development partners, enabling model training, large-scale inference, and sovereign-cloud integration within locally governed ecosystems.

“This collaboration underscores the firm's commitment to guiding clients through complex, high-impact data center transactions,” said energy and infrastructure partner Dorina Yessios.

The A&O Shearman team that is advising Global AI is led by New York-based M&A partner Romain Dambre and energy and infrastructure partner and U.S. co-head of energy, infrastructure and natural resources Dorina Yessios. The team also includes U.S. head of tax Larry Crouch, technology transactions partner and technology sector lead Daren Orzechowski, corporate partner Andrew Schoorlemmer, real estate partner Carolyn Stoner, employment and benefits partner and global co-head of compensation, employment and governance Brian Jebb, and structured finance counsel Jonathan Cho.