Real estate continues to draw institutional and sovereign investors from around the world into prime markets—and increasingly into certain secondary markets. To help you take advantage of these growth opportunities you need an experienced advisor. Paul Hastings can help.

Client Successes

• Advised Morgan Stanley, as lead lender, in the $2.42 billion financing of the Ala Moana Mall in Honolulu, Hawaii, a super-regional shopping center owned by Brookfield Properties and its joint venture partner, Institutional Mall Investors.

• Advised New York City Football Club LLC (NYCFC) and its affiliates in connection with the ground leasing of the 17-acre development site on which NYCFC intends to develop Etihad Park, a 25,000-seat professional soccer stadium in the Willets Point section of Queens.

• Advised Watermark Lodging Trust in its definitive agreement with private real estate funds managed by Brookfield Asset Management, which will acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Watermark in an all-cash transaction valued at $3.8 billion.

A Tradition of Innovation

Our leading Real Estate team provides deep insight into the challenges of conducting transactions in today’s global economy, as well as guidance on how our clients’ real estate strategies can support their continued growth. Our collaborative interdisciplinary approach allows us to develop sophisticated structures and innovative solutions for some of the most complex multijurisdictional real estate and hospitality deals in the world.

With lawyers who focus exclusively on the real estate and construction industry, we have handled many of the largest deals of the past several decades.

Recognition of Our Practice

• The only firm ranked Band 1 in Nationwide Leisure & Hospitality by both Chambers USA and Chambers UK

• Named Real Estate Practice Group of the Year by Law 360

• Ranked a First Tier Firm for Real Estate by Legal 500 USA—every year since 2011

• Recognized in Band 1 in Nationwide Leisure & Hospitality by Chambers USA

• Named Real Estate Law Firm of the Year by Asian Legal Business

Full-Cycle Real Estate Advisors

• We assist from acquisition through to development. By collaborating with our Corporate, Tax, and Securitization and Structured Finance teams, we can address a full range of issues that may arise in any international real estate transaction.

• We were one of the first global law firms to establish a Data Center practice. Our extensive experience includes deals at the forefront of the industry, from acquisitions to development.