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Fernando Margarit
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
Spanish
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Fernando’s practice focuses on the digital infrastructure and telecommunications, media and technology industries. He represents clients on a wide array of transactions, including project development and commercialization, acquisitions and dispositions of a broad spectrum of assets, financings, joint ventures and emerging technologies. Fernando’s clients include some of the world’s most recognizable hyperscalers, telecommunications operators, data center operators, infrastructure funds and financial institutions.
Fernando’s practice has a particular emphasis on the data center and subsea cable sectors. In the subsea sector, Fernando has represented clients with respect to many of the world's most significant and impactful subsea cable system builds, spanning the globe. His involvement with these systems is often long term, spanning from project inception (including money raising (debt and equity) and consortium formation) through construction to commercialization.
Fernando counsels his clients on all matters related to system builds, including cable supply contract negotiations; system construction and implementation issues; construction and maintenance agreements or joint built agreements for consortium-owned cable systems; landing party arrangements; associated data center and cable landing station buildouts and colocation arrangements; fiber and capacity sales; and related regulatory and network security matters.
In the data center sector, Fernando focuses on the development, construction and operation of data centers and hybrid cable landing stations, often times for use by one or more hyperscalers or subsea cable consortiums. Fernando’s work in this sector includes representation on the procurement of fiber connectivity to data centers, build-to-suit and sale-IRU/leaseback arrangements, unique colocation arrangements and specialized access, security and environmental arrangements and requirements.
Representative experience
Counsel to Meta Platforms, Inc. as to numerous significant transpacific, transatlantic and regional subsea cable systems throughout the globe.
Counsel to two of Europe’s largest carriers as to all facets of their construction, development, commercialization and operation of subsea and terrestrial fiber optic networks globally.
Counsel to two of the lead developers of the CELIA subsea cable system, which, when completed, will connect locations throughout the Caribbean and the United States.
Counsel to principal developer of the Carnival Submarine Network-1 (CSN-1), which, when completed, connect Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, locations throughout the Caribbean and the United States.*
Counsel to one of the lead developers of the SEA-US subsea cable system (connecting Indonesia, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii and California), including as to related financing.*
Counsel to lead developer of the GBI subsea cable system (connecting the Gulf region countries), as to the supply contract and associated build and development matters.*
Counsel to lead developer of SEACOM subsea cable system (connecting locations on East and Southern coasts of Africa, France and India), as to build, operation and commercialization of such system.*
Counsel to Telecom Egypt as to its build and commercialization of the TE North subsea cable system (connecting Egypt and France with a branching unit to Cyprus).*
Counsel to operator of numerous data centers and associated terrestrial fiber networks throughout Africa, including in respect of various data center build-to-suit arrangements for hyperscalers.*
Counsel to a variety of clients as to all aspects of data center capacity procurement, including as to access, security and environmental requirements unique to particular clients.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- J.D., Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, 1993
- B.A. Economics, University of Miami, 1989
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Florida
- District of Columbia
- New York
Memberships
- Member, International Cable Protection Committee
- Member, Spain-US Chamber of Commerce, Florida and New York
- Member, World Services Group