Latham & Watkins LLP

Kaila Sergent advises clients on a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, with a focus on data center leasing and development.

Kaila draws on extensive transactional experience across the transactional life cycle to guide owners, operators, developers, investors, and other clients through a full spectrum of high-value commercial real estate matters involving acquisitions, dispositions, financings, and development across diverse asset classes, including:

• Large-scale data center campuses
• Powered shell and build-to-suit structures
• Multijurisdictional portfolios
• Office, multifamily, hotel, retail, and industrial projects
• Life sciences, healthcare, and medical office facilities
• Student housing and senior housing developments

Kaila also regularly advises clients on public-private partnership (P3) transactions, deftly balancing the interests of private stakeholders, developers, and public entities. She has also negotiated long-term ground leases with more than a dozen universities across the United States.

She crafts pragmatic solutions to complex problems at each phase of a data center transaction, enabling large transactions to close on time.

A recognized thought leader, Kaila frequently speaks on a broad range of real estate topics, including hyperscaler leasing.

Before joining Latham, Kaila was a partner at another global law firm. Earlier in her career, she worked as an associate at another law firm in New York.