Partner Jean Pierre Boyea represented French company Viridien (through one of its U.S. subsidiaries, CGG Services (U.S.) Inc.) in its negotiation of a new long-term lease for more than 250,000 square feet of commercial office space and data center facilities for its North American headquarters in Houston. Viridien is a multinational geoscience technology services and high-performance computing company that specializes in solving complex natural resource, environmental and infrastructure challenges.

Viridien’s North American headquarters is in a custom-built, seven-building campus developed over 20+ years, comprised of office space, data center facilities, parking garages and various campus amenities (425,000+ square feet of leasable area in the aggregate). Viridien tapped Bell Nunnally to help it create a lease where the campus can become multi-tenant, while allowing the company to maintain control over key buildings and infrastructure facilities. Bell Nunnally was able to tailor an agreement that addressed unique issues such as the challenge of ensuring Viridien’s operation of 24/7/365 data center facilities, as well as including emergency preparedness provisions to better ensure data center uptime in the event of extreme weather.

Jean Pierre Boyea worked closely with Viriden’s in-house team of Chad Meintel (Head of Legal Affairs – North America), James Whatley (Facilities Manager) and Gary Wilson (U.S. Country Manager) on this project, and was assisted by Bell Nunnally partners Kassandra G. McLaughlin and Spencer C. Diebel.