With one of the most sophisticated and diversified real estate practices among major law firms, Simpson Thacher provides clients with premier service on real estate matters. Our practice spans all areas of the real estate industry, including mergers and acquisitions of both public and private real estate companies, sales and acquisitions of portfolios and individual assets, financings, debt acquisitions, real estate developments, joint ventures, debt restructurings and workouts and equity recapitalizations. The practice is international in scope, with approximately 100 real estate lawyers across the Firm’s New York, London and Hong Kong offices.
Our synthesis of real estate experience with our leading corporate practices—M&A, capital markets, banking and restructuring—allows us to offer institutional real estate investors a single source of advice for their most complex real estate matters. Representing the world’s leading private equity real estate fund managers, such as Blackstone Real Estate Partners, Hilton, The Carlyle Group, KKR, Northwood Investors and Centerbridge, we have worked on many of the most significant real estate matters in the market.