Philip Rosen

Retired Partner New York
Philip Rosen
Philip Rosen retired from the partnership in 2024. He was Head of the Firm’s Real Estate practice and the Firm’s Infrastructure practice. Philip was a leading authority in the mergers and acquisitions of real estate companies, both public and private and both as part of restructurings and not. He was also one of the top real estate finance lawyers and was long considered one of the leading lawyers in the debt restructuring space. He was one of the top private equity lawyers in the property arena, representing numerous private equity and hedge funds and institutions in their larger and more complicated transactions. Philip also had a top reputation in a broad spectrum of other transaction areas, including real estate investment trusts, joint ventures, and property and debt portfolio acquisitions. Finally, he was one of the country’s leading authorities on doing business in the Middle East.

Philip was recognized as a leading lawyer for Real Estate by Chambers USA, Legal 500 US, Best Lawyers in America, IFLR1000 and was named to Lawdragon’s 2024 list of the “500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers,” as well as Lawdragon’s 2025 list of the “500 Leading Dealmakers in America”. Phillip was named a 2017 Real Estate “MVP” by Law360 noting his successes in major real estate transactions..

In April 2006, Philip was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council. In May 2008, President Bush invited Philip to serve on the Honorary Delegation to accompany the President to Jerusalem for Israel’s 60th anniversary. In March 2005, 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. Philip has been featured in interviews and profiles with a variety of notable publications and broadcasts, including The Wall Street Journal, The Real Deal, The Stoler Report and Building New York: New York Stories, among others.

Philip serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Yeshiva University in New York, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yeshiva College in New York and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Birthright Israel Foundation. In 2018, he received an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University.