Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP's real estate team is regularly engaged to handle a range of transactions throughout the market. The practice advises on financing transactions, investments, acquisitions and dispositions, real estate M&A transactions as well as development projects, joint ventures, and restructurings; the broad practice is supported by deep industry expertise across all real estate asset classes including office, retail, mixed-use, and hospitality properties. The team is led by Thomas Henry, based in New York, whose practice focuses on advising domestic and foreign real estate companies, private equity funds, and institutional lenders and investors. The practice is strengthened by the work of Jannelle Seales, also based in New York, who focuses on mergers and acquisitions for real estate companies.
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Testimonials
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‘Great people, attentive to each deal, good support.’
‘Pej Razavilar has been super helpful in almost everything we have worked on with them.’
'Jannelle Seales is an absolute rock star, finding the perfect balance between knowing the law and knowing our goals, and getting us exactly where we need to be.'
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. on the real estate aspects of its acquisition of SRS Distribution Inc.
Advised Cedar Fair, L.P. on the real estate aspects of its merger with Six Flags Entertainment Corporation.
Advised Brookfield Business Partners on the real estate aspects of its sale of Westinghouse Electric Company, a supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to the commercial nuclear electric power industry.
Lawyers
Practice head
Thomas Henry
Other key lawyers
Jannelle Seales; Pejman Razavilar