We provide advice on real estate matters to a wide range of clients. From mergers and acquisitions for commercial real estate and hotel companies, to the purchase, sale and refinancing of large office buildings, industrial properties and shopping centers, we are at the center of the real estate marketplace. In addition, we counsel domestic and foreign individuals and companies on secured lending transactions, public and private securities offerings, project financings, bankruptcies and restructurings that contain significant real estate components.

Our regular clients have included Stockbridge, Host Hotels & Resorts, InterContinental Hotels Group and numerous major financial institutions and corporations on their real estate-related transactions.

• We advised Host Hotels & Resorts on its $313.5 million acquisition of the New York Helmsley Hotel, a 775-room luxury hotel in Midtown Manhattan, from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and Harley of New York Associates.
• We advised the White House on the sale of Governors Island to the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, and the transfer of the Governors Island National Monument area from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to the National Park Service.
• We advised the Stockbridge Real Estate Funds, a series of real estate investment funds with aggregate capital commitments of institutional investors in excess of $2 billion.
• We advised Host Hotels & Resorts in connection with the September 11th destruction of its World Trade Center Marriott Hotel.
• We advised on the management buyout of the Painewebber Real Estate Fund from UBS PaineWebber.

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