Sitting within the real estate group, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP‘s REIT practice is known for its experience in joint ventures, debt offerings, acquisitions and divestments, and distressed matters. Practice head Phillip Rosen has recently represented publicly traded REITs with complex restructurings while Phillip Rosen, who joined from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in July 2024, jointly leads the team. Both lawyers in leadership are based in New York, as are Jannelle Seales and Pejman Razavilar who splits his time between Miami and New York. Seales and Razavilar are adept at M&A and joint ventures.
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Key clients
- AllianceBernstein Holding LP
- Blackstone
- Brookfield Business Partners L.P.
- Cedar Fair, L.P.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc.
- Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Goldman Sachs
- IQHQ, Inc.
- NRDC Equity Partners
Work highlights
Advised The Home Depot, Inc., the largest home improvement specialty retailer in the United States, in the real estate aspects of its $18.25 billion acquisition of SRS Distribution Inc.
Advised Cedar Fair, L.P., an owner and operator of amusement parks, water parks and resort accommodations in the United States and Canada, in the real estate aspects of its approximately $8 billion merger with Six Flags Entertainment Corporation.
Advised Brookfield Business Partners in the real estate aspects of its $8 billion sale of Westinghouse Electric Company, a supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to the commercial nuclear electric power industry.
Lawyers
Practice head
Thomas J. Henry; Philip Rosen
Other key lawyers
Jannelle Seales; Pejman Razavilar