Crusoe Taps Veteran Real Estate Lawyer to Support Hyperscale AI Data Center Expansion

New updates have been reported about Crusoe.

Crusoe has strengthened its leadership bench for large-scale infrastructure growth by appointing Nader Pakfar as General Counsel, Real Estate, a new role that centralizes legal oversight of the company’s global data center footprint. Pakfar, a co-founder and longtime managing partner of SPC LLP, brings more than 15 years of experience structuring complex real estate deals exceeding $10 billion in aggregate value for institutional investors, developers, and operators, along with prior tenure at major AmLaw 50 firms. His mandate is to design and execute Crusoe’s real estate legal strategy in support of the company’s rapidly expanding portfolio of hyperscale AI data center developments, a critical component of Crusoe’s vertically integrated AI infrastructure model, which combines energy sourcing, purpose-built facilities, and cloud delivery. In parallel, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary Jamey Seely will retain overall legal leadership while shifting greater attention to enterprise governance, corporate strategy, and capital markets, signaling that Crusoe is preparing for larger-scale financing and strategic transactions as it scales.

Working closely with Chief Real Estate Officer Matt Field and the broader executive team, Pakfar is expected to help accelerate site acquisition and development timelines, structure complex financing and risk allocation frameworks, and support partnerships with hyperscale customers that depend on reliable, large-capacity AI infrastructure. Company leadership emphasized that his track record in coordinating multi-disciplinary deal teams and navigating intricate real estate and financing structures aligns with the level of complexity Crusoe now faces as it builds out AI-optimized data centers at industrial scale. For stakeholders, this appointment underscores Crusoe’s intent to institutionalize its real estate function as a strategic lever, reduce execution risk on major capital projects, and create a more durable legal and governance foundation for continued expansion of its AI infrastructure platform. Executives highlighted that Crusoe’s growth strategy sits at the intersection of energy, real estate, and AI, and that specialized legal leadership in these areas is increasingly central to maintaining speed, negotiating power, and capital efficiency as the company scales.