North America - United States • Real estate
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Representing a diverse group of buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP’s real estate team advises across the full spectrum of real estate assets and sectors with highlights including sizeable transactions and development mandates in residential, condominiums, and offices along with mandates in the hotel and resort sectors. Negotiations and leasing arrangements are also strengths, as is the firm’s strong track record in financing, including mortgage and mezzanine loan structures, restructuring and workouts. The practice is also noted for its ability to draw on the firm’s bankruptcy, tax, and corporate & financial services groups. Operating out of New York is chair of real estate finance Krystyna Blakeslee as well as co-chairs of the real estate department Carly Glover Saviano, David Drewes, and Thomas Henry. In Los Angeles chair of real estate Misty Sanford is a key contact with expertise covering transactions, workouts, and private-public partnerships.
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Testimonials
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‘The real estate team at Willkie is top notch. They are extraordinarily detail-oriented, communicative, organized, and responsive. Our experience with them has been second to none.’
‘Carly Glover Saviano and Erin O'Loughlin - They are each extraordinarily detail-oriented, communicative, organized, and responsive. Perhaps most importantly, though, Carly is very sharp. She picks up on issues (in documents and high-level/conceptual) quickly. The teams provide frequent and clear written updates, turn documents quickly, offer recommended solutions and strategies, and are very customer service oriented.’
Key clients
- Access Industries Inc.
- Adept Development
- AGC Equity Partners
- Aspen Skiing Company
- Breakthrough Properties
- The Broad Museum
- Brookfield
- Cain International
- Capital Senior Living Corporation
- Caruso Affiliated Holding
- Centerbridge Partners
- Choice Hotels International
- CIM Group & CIM Real Estate Credit
- Commerz Real Fund
- DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (fka Colony Capital)
- Column Financial, Inc. (Credit Suisse)
- The Davis Companies
- DiamondRock Hospitality, Inc.
- Faropoint
- GI Partners
- Goldman Sachs
- Harbor Group International (HGI)
- Harel Insurance Investments and Financial Services Ltd.
- HIG Realty Partners
- Hines Interests Limited Partnership
- Hudson’s Bay Company
- IO Data Centers LLC
- Jiaming Investment (Group) Co., Ltd.
- JP Morgan
- KKR
- Lyric Opera of Chicago
- Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies
- Meadow Partners
- Mesa West
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
- MSD Capital
- Natixis
- Oaktree Capital Management
- Paramount Group, Inc.
- Reverance Capital Partners
- SL Green Realty
- St. John’s University
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Group (SMBC)
- Tishman Speyer
- Trammell Crow Company
- Van Barton Group
- Washington Prime Group, Inc.
- The Witkoff Group
Work highlights
- Advised SL Green in its acquisition of 245 Park Avenue through a bankruptcy auction.
- Advised Aspen Skiing Company and the Crown family in connection with a long-term lease at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan.
- Advised Choice Hotels International in its proposal to acquire Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $9.8 billion.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Thomas Henry, David Drewes, Krystyna Blakeslee, Misty Sanford, Carly Glover Saviano