Notable Representations, Key Contacts
Mergers & Acquisitions
Weil advises global public and private companies as well as the major real estate players in mega M&A transactions. We regularly advise on the largest and highest-profile transactions.
Real Estate Restructuring
Weil has remained at the vanguard of real estate law through the real estate downturn in the early 1990s and again in 2008. The collapse of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing financial crisis and global recession have resulted in a sea-change in real estate vastly different from what came before. Weil's Real Estate practice developed novel approaches to address these unprecedented challenges. Weil's Real Estate lawyers work in close coordination with Weil's Restructuring lawyers on some of the most complex, industry changing real estate restructurings, including the resolution of Lehman Brothers real estate portfolio; General Growth Properties (n/k/a GGP Inc.) in its $8.5 billion recapitalization and its later spinoff of its subsidiary Rouse Properties; and Extended Stay Hotels in its chapter 11 sale to a group comprising Centerbridge Partners, Paulson & Co. and Blackstone Real Estate Associates VI, among others. Weil currently represents two of the three largest special servicers in many of the largest and most complicated workouts or restructurings situations.
Real Estate Debt, Equity and Real Estate Investment Trusts
Representative Clients
- AIG
- Annaly Capital
- Atalaya Capital Management
- Beacon Capital
- Beijing Guo Tai Shang Cheng Real Estate Co. Ltd. (known as Cheerland in the U.S.)
- Brookfield Asset Management
- Brookfield Property Partners
- C-III Asset Management
- Citi
- CWCapital Asset Management
- Fortress Investment Group
- GE Capital
- General Growth Properties
- Goldman Sachs
- Island Capital
- Jumeirah
- KTR Capital
- Lehman Brothers
- Lindsay Goldberg
- Macquarie Group
- Madison International
- MGM Resorts International
- Monday Properties
- Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund
- Rouse Properties
- RXR Realty
- Silverpeak Real Estate Partners
- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
- Tishman Speyer
- TPG Real Estate
Key Contacts
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Named Real Estate “Practice Group of the Year”
Law360 2023, 2021 and 2019
Named a “Leading” Firm for Real Estate: Mainly Dirt in New York
Chambers USA 2023
Named a “Leading” Firm for REITS in the U.S.
Chambers USA 2023
They are a true partner, they'll put themselves in the co-pilot seat with you and help you get to the finish line.”
Chambers USA 2021
Named a “Leading” Firm for Real Estate in the U.S.
Chambers USA 2022
Named a “Leading” Firm for Real Estate: Mainly Corporate & Finance in New York
Chambers USA 2022
Named a “Leading” Firm for Real Estate and REITs
Legal 500 US 2023
Named a “Leading” Firm for Real Estate in New York
IFLR1000 2022
Ranked Tier 1 Nationwide for Real Estate Law
U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” 2022*
* Best Lawyers (in America) is by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners
Philip Rosen Named Real Estate "MVP"
Law360 2013