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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP‘s ’smart, creative, hardworking, reasonable, and always accessible’ team is highly proficient in its handling of joint ventures, financings, and M&A, in addition to recapitalizations, workouts, and restructuring. Acting on borrower and lender sides, clients consist of sizeable private equity groups, funds, and REITs, including major global investors like the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, JP Morgan Asset Management, and Tishman Speyer Properties. Among other asset classes, the firm has seen a stream of mandates relating to industrials and logistics, single and multi-family properties, and life science facilities. Located in New York, the practice is led by highly regarded transaction expert Peter Irwin who brings a wealth of knowledge covering acquisitions and dispositions, among other areas. Edward Rishty is prominent for his advising of family offices and sovereign wealth funds on transactions, joint ventures and capital market transactions, while Nicole Levin Mesard assists on complex financings and infrastructure transactions as well as bankruptcy and loan restructuring.
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  • ‘The team is smart, creative, hardworking, reasonable, and always accessible. You get the full attention of the senior partners. Firm has many disciplines that complement the real estate transactional team. Can handle the most complicated deals and I trust them to look out for our interests and to get the deal done.’

  • ‘Peter Irwin and Edward Rishty are the partners that I work with the most and the ones that stand out above their peers in the industry.’

  • ‘They are very responsive, care about your business and excellent at advising you on a practical solution. Nicole-Mesard-Levin is phenomenal - she is well versed in real estate and has excellent business acumen.’

  • 'Edward Rishty and Peter Irwin are the preeminent NYC Real Estate group in my opinion. They are seamlessly integrated with all aspects of our business; they lead on all transactions (with appropriate supervision of their associates) and their communication and follow-up is consistently excellent. They have superior business acumen to their competitors; the power of their platform is a major strength, and they are excellent people - professionally and personally.'

Key clients

  • Angelo, Gordon & Co.
  • Avanath Capital Management
  • Breakthrough Properties
  • Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
  • Carmel Partners
  • Cohen Private Ventures
  • Creation Equity
  • Elliott Investment Management
  • Global Atlantic Financial
  • JPMorgan Asset Management

Work highlights

  • Represented Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) in the formation of a programmatic joint venture between CPP Investments and Bridge Industrial (Bridge).
  • Represented Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield in connection with the financing of Westfield Century City valued at $925 million, an outdoor shopping mall in Century City, California.
  • Represented J.P. Morgan Asset Management in the recapitalization of a 61-property portfolio of last-mile logistics facilities located in 20 states across the U.S. with a valuation of approximately $1.2 billion.

Lawyers

Practice head

Peter J. Irwin

Other key lawyers

Edward Rishty; Nicole Levin Mesard