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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Offices
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NEW YORK, NY 10017-3954
NEW YORK
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Ms Whitney Salinas

Work Department
Corporate; Real Estate
Position
Whitney Salinas is a Partner in the Firm’s Real Estate Department. She regularly represents private equity firms and portfolio companies on a broad range of commercial real estate financing transactions (including CMBS, balance sheet, mezzanine, agency and construction financing) across a variety of asset classes (including industrial, hospitality, office, data center, studio, life-science, retail, self-storage and manufactured homes). Some of her clients include Blackstone, Centerbridge Partners, Carlyle and KKR.
Career
Partner in 2019.
Education
Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. cum laude, 2009); Northwestern University (B.A., 2006)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
(Next Generation Partners)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
- Next Generation Partners - 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