# Stuart C Hindmarsh Stuart C. Hindmarsh is an attorney at [[Kutak Rock LLP]]'s Rogers, Arkansas office (5111 W. JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300). In this corpus he is contact of record on two of the investigation's hyperscale data-center sites — Project Pyramid (Google, Crittenden County) and Project Boar (Willowbend Capital, Port of Little Rock) — making him the only named individual to appear on the developer side of two separate Arkansas data-center transactions. ## Role and affiliations Attorney at [[Kutak Rock LLP]]'s Rogers, AR office. ## Appearances in the corpus - **[[Project Pyramid Site Property Record Card]]** — listed as the contact of record ("c/o") for [[GROOT LLC]], the entity that assembled the Project Pyramid data-center site. The Crittenden County property record card for parcel 33059 lists GROOT LLC's taxpayer address as *"C/O STUART C HINDMARSH, 5111 W JB HUNT DR STE 300, ROGERS, AR 72758"* (PRC.pdf p. 9). The Project Pyramid site is independently confirmed in this corpus as a Google data center — see [[Google LLC]] and [[2025-09 Google Data Center Water-Use Registration]]. - **[[Willowbend Capital Warranty Deed]]** — named as the deed preparer of record on the 2025-06-25 Special Warranty Deed conveying 383.52 acres of Port property to [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]]: *"This document prepared by and return to: Kutak Rock LLP, Attn: Stuart C. Hindmarsh, 5111 W. JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300, Rogers, Arkansas 72758."* - **[[Willowbend Capital Closing Statement]]** — signed for the buyer at closing as *"Stuart Hindmarsh, Authorized Signatory"* for Willowbend Capital LLC. He is the named signing party at the closing — not [[Michael Montfort]] (the SoS organizer-of-record for Willowbend). ## Notes Hindmarsh is the only named individual in this corpus to appear on the developer side of two separate hyperscale data-center transactions in Arkansas: as GROOT LLC's contact-of-record on Project Pyramid (Google's confirmed West Memphis site) and as Kutak Rock's deed preparer plus the buyer's Authorized Signatory on Project Boar (Willowbend Capital's Port-of-Little-Rock site, news-reported but not Tier-1-confirmed to be Google's). The cross-project pattern is itself a Tier-1 finding. Two competing readings of its weight: - **Reading A (common principal):** the same attorney signs for ostensibly unrelated Delaware shells in two states-of-the-art-data-center transactions because the principal behind both shells is the same (Google), and Kutak Rock's Rogers office is the principal's chosen Arkansas counsel. - **Reading B (regional practice):** the same attorney is the regional Arkansas data-center transactional specialist who handles unrelated clients in this niche; the recurrence is a counsel-specialization artifact, not a principal-identity signal. Per [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] and [[D003 Synthesis]], the standard for upgrading a Tier-3 principal attribution is roughly three independent Tier-1 channels. The Hindmarsh / Kutak Rock cross-project appearance is **one Tier-1 channel** under Reading A; under Reading B it is one channel that does not bear on principal identity. Discriminating between the readings requires evidence of Kutak Rock's other Arkansas data-center engagements (or non-engagements) — see the open follow-up on [[Kutak Rock LLP]]. The wiki therefore notes the finding without unilaterally promoting the Willowbend principal identification. The role this individual denotes — counsel of record, registered agent for service, corporate officer, or corporate-services-only contact — is partially answered for Project Boar: at the closing he signed as "Authorized Signatory" for Willowbend Capital LLC, suggesting at minimum agency authority for the LLC, beyond his attorney-of-record role. Whether he holds any formal officer or member position in Willowbend Capital, [[GROOT LLC]], or any related entity is not established in the corpus. > [!web-research-unresolved] Establish Hindmarsh's exact role at Kutak Rock (partner / counsel / associate; practice area) and whether the Arkansas Secretary of State business registry lists him as an officer, member, or registered agent for [[GROOT LLC]], [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]], [[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]], or any related Delaware shell.