A Partner in the Firm’s Real Estate Practice, Leanne Welds regularly represents private equity firms, portfolio companies and other clients on a broad range of high-profile and complex mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint venture and real estate financings, including agency, securitized and mezzanine financings.
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Work Highlights
- Affiliates of DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors in the proposed acquisition of Switch, Inc. in a transaction valued at $11 billion
- Blackstone in the $6 billion acquisition of Extended Stay America and its paired-share REIT, ESH Hospitality
- Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust in the $4.25 billion acquisition of the real estate assets of the Bellagio from MGM Resorts in a 95%/5% Blackstone-led joint venture
- Blackstone Property Partners Life Sciences in its $3.45 billion acquisition of a 2.3 million square foot portfolio of lab office buildings
- Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust in its $3.1 billion acquisition of WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust
- La Quinta Holdings, Inc. in its $1.035 billion CMBS financing of more than 300 hotels in the spin-off of the company’s brand assets to Wyndham Worldwide and subsequent rebranding of the real estate business as CorePoint Lodging, Inc.
Education
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Brooklyn Law School, 2014 J.D.
magna cum laude; Executive Articles Research Editor, Brooklyn Law Review; William Payson Richardson Memorial Prize
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Pomona College, 2010 B.A.
A Partner in the Firm’s Real Estate Practice, Leanne Welds regularly represents private equity firms, portfolio companies and other clients on a broad range of high-profile and complex mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint venture and real estate financings, including agency, securitized and mezzanine financings.
Representative examples of Leanne’s experience include advising the following:
- Affiliates of DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors in the proposed acquisition of Switch, Inc. in a transaction valued at $11 billion
- Blackstone in the $6 billion acquisition of Extended Stay America and its paired-share REIT, ESH Hospitality
- Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust in the $4.25 billion acquisition of the real estate assets of the Bellagio from MGM Resorts in a 95%/5% Blackstone-led joint venture
- Blackstone Property Partners Life Sciences in its $3.45 billion acquisition of a 2.3 million square foot portfolio of lab office buildings
- Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust in its $3.1 billion acquisition of WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust
- La Quinta Holdings, Inc. in its $1.035 billion CMBS financing of more than 300 hotels in the spin-off of the company’s brand assets to Wyndham Worldwide and subsequent rebranding of the real estate business as CorePoint Lodging, Inc.
Leanne received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School in 2014, where she was an Executive Articles Research Editor for the Brooklyn Law Review. She received her B.A. from Pomona College in 2010. Leanne is admitted to practice in New York.