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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Offices
425 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10017-3954
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr Scott Kobak
Work Department
Corporate, Real Estate
Position
Real Estate Partner primarily representing real estate funds in complex real estate transactions, real estate company acquisitions and developments, joint ventures and financings. Frequent clients include the real estate fund business of Carlyle, KKR, Blackstone and Crown Acquisitions. Recent transactions include Blackstone Property Partners and Hudson Pacific Properties’ formation of a joint venture to own three Hollywood studios and five on-lot or adjacent Class A office properties valued at $1.65 billion, KKR and Dalan Management’s formation of a joint venture to own a multifamily portfolio in Brooklyn valued at $860 million, and KKR’s acquisition of Tower 333 in Seattle for $850 million.
Career
Joined firm in 1993; became Partner in 2000.
Education
Boston University School of Law (J.D. magna cum laude; Boston University Law Review, Associate Editor, 1992); Binghamton University, State University of New York (B.S., 1989)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
(Leading lawyers)Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP integrates its multidisciplinary real estate practice with its bank financing, capital markets, M&A and private funds expertise. From New York, Gregory Ressa
chairs the practice, where he specializes in representing estate opportunity funds in M&A and financings. Other key in the same office include Scott Kobak, Sasan Mehrara, Krista Miniutti and Whitney Salinas; all highly experienced counsel for private equity firms and portfolio companies in commercial acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and financings.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers - United States > Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate - United States > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Industry focus > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Industry focus > Insurance: advice to insurers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: electric power
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Insurance: non-contentious
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International Trade > International trade
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Project finance