North America - United States • Real estate
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
McDermott Will & Emery LLP regularly represents tenants, landlords, developers and sponsors on transactions, leasing, joint ventures, and financings across all asset classes. The firm is particularly notable for its advice to large private equity and asset management companies, as well as its broader experience on behalf of REITs, developers, and lenders. Co-head David Wolff is located in Chicago, with fellow co-heads David Herman in New York, and Mal Serure between New York and Los Angeles. Wolff is particularly experienced on structuring, negotiations, and transactions, while Herman brings expertise covering the likes of IPOs, special purpose acquisition companies, workouts and restructurings. Serure, meanwhile, is well-versed across a range of loan work that encompasses the areas of mortgage and mezzanine loan financings, among others. In 2023, Marshall Brozost, Alykhan Shivji, and David Neville left the firm.
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Key clients
- Apollo Global Real Estate Management, LP
- Brookfield
- RFR Holding LLC
- Centerbridge Capital
- H.I.G. Realty Capital
- QuadReal
- Arbor Realty Trust, Inc.
- Stockbridge Capital
- Ladder Capital Corp.
- IS Development LLC dba Ian Schrager Company
- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank
- Monday Properties
- Lindsay Goldberg
- LCOR
- Natixis, New York Branch
- BDO USA
- S3 Capital
- Destillers United Group S.L.
Work highlights
- Represented Destillers United Group S.L.in the $725 million sale of itsDiplomático rum brand to Brown- Forman corporation, the publicly traded international spirits company best known for its Jack Daniels whiskey.
- Advising Ian Schrager International in their venture with Marriott International to develop Edition branded hotels throughout the world.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
David Herman, Mal Serure, David Wolff