Biography
Jenny Roan Forgey is an attorney in the Land Use and Real Estate sections of Jackson Walker’s Austin Office. Jenny represents developers, owners, buyers, sellers, and investors in an array of commercial and residential real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, development, entitlement, and governance in all asset classes. As a member of the firm’s data center practice, Jenny brings her creative, practical approach to data center development. Understanding the unique challenges data center developers face – from timing to regulatory matters to lender concerns – makes Jenny a valuable member of a data center team. Her data center clients have come to lean on her as more than just an attorney but as the type of responsive problem-solver that helps bring their developments to market.
Data Centers Practice Experience
- Represent an international data center developer before the Board of a Water Control Improvement District to remove blanket easements from real property slated for data center development.
- Represent an international data center developer in negotiations with multiple water supply corporations to negotiate movement of existing lines and narrowing of existing easements to remove potential impediments to data center build sites.
- Work with data center developer to properly navigate builds near existing natural gas and oil pipelines in accordance with Texas law.
- Work with the firm’s electric regulatory team to structure data center sites from both a governance and land use perspective, using the condominium form of ownership for electricity regulation and division of property.
- Successfully removed a 100-year-old oil and gas pipeline easement from encumbering property slated for data center development, as required by lenders.
- Used the condominium form of ownership to structure a data center developer’s site plan so that it could sell off partial buildings.
Education
B.S., Georgetown University
J.D., Baylor University School of Law
- Dean’s List
- Baylor Law Moot Court Order of Barristers
- Published in Baylor Law Review
Bar Admissions
Texas
