Media Coverage 11.24.25
Allan Van Vliet Sees Growing Investment Opportunities in Data Centers and Beyond
Source: Bloomberg Law
Allan Van Vliet advises clients on a wide variety of commercial transactions, with a focus on serving clients in the real estate, construction, and energy industries.
Allan represents clients in all phases of the development, purchase, disposition, financing, and management of office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hospitality, data center, and agricultural projects and properties. His clients include owners, lenders, lessors, investors, managers, and users of all classes and sizes of real estate property, and his work for them ranges from traditional “dirt law,” to complex multi-tiered financings, to corporate governance matters. Allan’s practice includes advising clients who own distressed or non-performing assets on loan workouts, deed-in-lieu and assignment-in-lieu agreements, and foreclosures. Allan is also well versed in leasing matters, and has guided many commercial clients (both landlords and tenants) through complex lease negotiations and tenant improvement buildouts.
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As a member of Pillsbury’s Projects team, Allan regularly guides project sponsors through all stages of the project development process, from front-end loading to final acceptance. His experience includes work on megaprojects and gigaprojects such as advanced nuclear power plants, conventional energy facilities, data centers, factories, and multi-phase developments. He combines practical knowledge with legal expertise to offer his clients realistic, actionable advice on how to mitigate and manage risks and ensure timely project completion.
Allan also represents both tribal and non-tribal clients in matters involving federal Native American law. His work in this field includes compliance and transactional advice relating to state and federal gaming and gambling laws, as well as advice and advocacy concerning state regulatory power in Indian Country.
Representative Experience
- Negotiated design-build contract documents for $3 billion advanced small modular nuclear power plant development project.
- Facilitated disposition via deed-in-lieu of foreclosure of distressed Class A office property with mortgage and mezzanine financings.
- Represented major publicly traded company in $1 billion acquisition of office headquarters building and related infrastructure.
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- Advised owner of renewable power facility located on tribal lands in connection with dispute over state taxing and regulatory authority.
- Represented private equity fund in acquisition and mortgage and mezzanine financing of office tower in Oakland, California.
- Advised publicly-traded manufacturing client on the construction of new high-technology factory, and in the negotiation and preparation of commercial offtake agreements for manufactured products.
- Advised Clearwater Paper Corporation on real property and land use aspects of $1.06 billion sale of tissue paper production business and facilities.
- Advised major renewable energy producer on the acquisition of nation-wide portfolio of solar and wind generation facilities.
Professional Highlights
Articles
- “Texas Property Law Complicates Financing and Development,” Law360, Sept. 2, 2025
- “California Enacts Landmark CEQA Reforms to Accelerate Housing and Infrastructure Development,” Client Alert, July 7, 2025
- “Something Biden and Trump Can Agree On? Data Centers, AI and Energy Generation,” Pratt’s Energy Law Report, April 2025
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- “Parking Reform Takes Off on the West Coast,” Republished in The Real Estate Finance Journal, April 2023
- “Adaptive Reuse: Creative Reimagining of Former Office Space to Address Differing Demands,” Republished in The Real Estate Finance Journal, March 2023
- Blog Posts
- “Investing in Data Centers,” Pillsbury’s Gravel2Gavel
- “Sustainable, Versatile and Resilient: How Mass Timber Construction Can Shake Up the Building Industry,” Pillsbury’s Gravel2Gavel
- “Women’s Professional Sports Continues to Grow by Courts (and Rinks) and Bounds,” Pillsbury’s Gravel2Gavel
Education
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J.D., Stanford Law School, 2020
M.S., Stanford University, 2020
School of EarthB.A., Occidental College, 2015
summa cum laude
Admissions
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California
Oregon