J. Philip Rosen is a Corporate partner who also co-chairs the firm's Real Estate practice, and the firm's Infrastructure practice. Mr. Rosen is a leading authority in the origination and restructuring of property debt, having worked on many of the largest and most complicated property debt transactions in the US over the past 20 years; he is also considered one of the top private equity lawyers in the property arena, representing numerous opportunity funds and institutions in their larger and more complicated transactions. Mr. Rosen also has a top reputation in a broad spectrum of other transactional areas, including real estate mergers & acquisition, real estate investment trusts, joint ventures, and property and debt portfolio acquisitions. He heads the firm's renowned hospitality and gaming practices. Finally, he is one of the country's leading authorities on doing business in the Middle East.
Recent client representations include Macquarie Infrastructure, Brookfield Asset Management, Fortress Investments, CWCapital, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Trump Entertainment, Loews/CNA, Emera Energy, Citigroup, The Estée Lauder Companies, Ormat Nevada and Yeshiva University.
Mr. Rosen and the practices he leads have received many honors. Mr. Rosen was named a 2012 Real Estate “MVP” by Law360 noting his successes in major real estate transactions, including advising Centro Retail Trust in its $9.4 billion sale of a US shopping center portfolio and representing General Growth Properties in its $8.5 billion recapitalization effort. Chambers, which has listed Weil as one of the top real estate practices since inception, has called Weil’s real estate practice “the best practice for real estate restructuring and refinancing.” Mr. Rosen has been recognized by Chambers USA 2005, as ‘a great adviser and a highly respected figure.’ In Chambers USA 2009, clients said he is a 'world class lawyer’ with ‘an understanding of the markets and a good grasp of the business repercussions in addition to the legal ramifications.’ Mr. Rosen has been listed in Chambers as one of the very top real estate lawyers since Chambers began its ratings. Mr. Rosen has also been recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America since 2004, as one of the top real estate practitioners in Legal 500 US, and has been designated a New York Super Lawyer since 2006. Additionally, he is recognized as a leading lawyer based abroad for Corporate/M&A: Israel in Chambers Global 2013.
In April 2006, Mr. Rosen was appointed by President Bush to serve as a member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council. In March, 2002 he was appointed by Governor George Pataki to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation Professional Firms Advisory Council. He was elected in 1993 to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. In 1990 Crain's New York Business named him to their elite "40 Under 40 - People to Watch in the 1990's." He also was named one of the leading "power brokers" in New York real estate by GRID magazine.
Mr. Rosen is vice-chairman of the board of directors of Yeshiva College of Yeshiva University in New York and a Wexner Heritage Foundation scholar. He is also a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Real Estate Board of New York, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, and the Urban Land Institute.
Formerly law clerk to Hon. David N. Edelstein, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, Mr. Rosen received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Yeshiva University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He was editor of The Journal of Law and Policy in International Business, Georgetown's international law review.