John Thomas Goldman is a senior associate in the Corporate Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP’s New York office, where his practice focuses on real estate and infrastructure transactions. John has represented sponsors, government agencies, investors, institutional lenders, and commercial real estate owners and operators in all forms of commercial real estate investment, disposition, development, operation, and financing. He has significant experience with major infrastructure projects, joint venture investment and development, mezzanine and construction lending, portfolio loan facilities, complex and distressed collateral and assets, real estate-related M&A, and gaming and hospitality investment, development, financing, operation, acquisition, and disposition.
John has spent significant time representing REITs and other real estate owners and investors, as well as lenders, in the restructuring and de-leveraging of substantial real estate portfolios. He also spends a significant portion of his time working on Weil's extensive representation of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, including major strategic real estate transactions and infrastructure development as well as significant policy issues and leasing matters with major marine container terminal tenants. Throughout his career, John has handled the real estate aspects of numerous major M&A transactions for General Electric Company, including most recently the $11.6 billion sale of GE Plastics to SABIC, which involved hundreds of real estate assets around the world, as well as the $37.25 billion joint venture transaction with Comcast for ownership of NBC Universal, which involved theme parks, major television production facilities, antenna sites, and 1.3 million square feet of office, studio, and production facilities at Rockefeller Center.