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With one of the most sophisticated and diversified real estate practices among major law firms, Simpson Thacher provides clients with premier service on real estate matters. Our practice spans all areas of the real estate industry, including mergers and acquisitions of both public and private real estate companies, sales and acquisitions of portfolios and individual assets, financings, debt acquisitions, real estate developments, joint ventures, debt restructurings and workouts and equity recapitalizations. The practice is international in scope, with approximately 100 real estate lawyers across the Firm’s New York, London and Hong Kong offices.

Our synthesis of real estate experience with our leading corporate practices—M&A, capital markets, banking and restructuring—allows us to offer institutional real estate investors a single source of advice for their most complex real estate matters. Representing the world’s leading private equity real estate fund managers, such as Blackstone Real Estate Partners, Hilton, The Carlyle Group, KKR, Northwood Investors and Centerbridge, we have worked on many of the most significant real estate matters in the market.

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Band 1 Ranking in New York Real Estate: Mainly Corporate & Finance, Chambers USA 2008–2024

Iconic Real Estate Transactions

Value and Recent Transaction
$39 billion acquisition of Equity Office Properties
$26 billion sale of GGP to Brookfield (Special Committee of the Board of GGP)
$26 billion acquisition of Hilton Hotels and Hilton’s IPO and spin-off of its real estate and timeshare business
$23 billion acquisition of the global real estate assets of GE Capital Real Estate
$20 billion merger-of-equals between Invitation Homes and Starwood Waypoint Homes
$18.7 billion acquisition of GLP assets
€12.25 billion sale of Logicor, Blackstone’s pan-European logistics company, to China Investment Corporation
$8 billion acquisition of BioMed Realty
$7.6 billion acquisition of Gramercy Property Trust
$5.9 billion acquisition of Colony Industrial
$5.3 billion acquisition of New York’s Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village
$4.6 billion acquisition of the real estate assets of Mandalay Bay and MGM Grand
C$3.8 billion acquisition of Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust
$1.95 billion sale of La Quinta’s hotel franchise and hotel management businesses to Wyndham as well as La Quinta’s spin-off of its real estate business
$1.95 billion sale of the iconic Waldorf Astoria New York
$1.73 billion acquisition of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
$1.3 billion acquisition of the Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower)
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A Real Estate Practice Group of the Year – Law360 (2011, 2013-2019, 2021, 2023)

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