Practice Areas & Industries: Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Practice/Industry Group Overview
Wachtell Lipton has a preeminent real estate M&A practice, focused on REIT M&A and strategic real estate transactions. The firm specializes in mergers and acquisitions and other extraordinary transactions involving Real Estate Investment Trusts and other real estate companies, the sale and financing of significant assets, institutional investment transactions, strategic joint ventures, major development projects, structuring private equity real estate opportunity funds, innovative capital markets transactions, and restructurings. Wachtell Lipton recently has been involved in representing Silverstein Properties in the redevelopment of the World Trade Center; Public Storage in its successful unsolicited acquisition of the Shurgard REIT; Kimco Realty Corporation in its acquisition of Pan Pacific; Apollo in its acquisition of Realogy; The Mills in its sale to Simon Property Group and Farallon; a consortium consisting of Vornado Realty Trust, Starwood Capital and Walton Street in its bid to acquire Equity Office Properties Trust; a Morgan Stanley/Onex venture in its acquisition of the Town & Country REIT; Morgans Hotel Group in its acquisition of Hard Rock Hotels; Reckson in its acquisition by S.L. Green; Taubman in its successful defense against an unsolicited offer by Simon and Westfield; Hometown in its acquisition of Chateau; Tishman Speyer in its acquisition and recapitalization of the Chrysler Building and other significant properties; Kmart in its disposition of various real estate assets; Apollo in the structuring and formation of its private equity real estate opportunity funds; and various M&A transactions involving Security Capital, National Golf Properties, AvalonBay, Apollo and other significant players in the real estate industry.