L AW Y E R S

The biggest NYC real estate law rms largest deals for 2009
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Deal Atlantic Yards Master Closing Size/Value $4.9 billion Notes
Represented Forest City Ratner in connection with the sale of over $500 million in tax-exempt bonds for the nancing of the new Barclays Center, the planned arena for the Nets, a key component of the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn. Also represented Forest City in completing arrangements with the state, the city and the MTA for development of the entire Atlantic Yards project, where ground was broken last month.

Lead Lawyer(s)
Stephen Lefkowitz, Richard Leland, Melanie Meyers (Atlantic Yards); Arthur Kaufman, Emil Buchman (Barclays Center)

Greenberg Traurig
Deal Asset transfer of Crescent Real Estate Size/Value $2 billion Notes
Represented Barclays Capital in working with Crescent Real Estate Equities and Morgan Stanley in the transfer of more than $2 billion in distressed Crescent assets to a joint venture between Barclays Capital and Goff Capital. (Morgan Stanley had purchased Crescent in 2007 with cash and a $3.3 billion Barclays loan, but after selling some of Crescents assets got stymied by the downturn and turned Crescent back over to Barclays, which forgave $2 billion of the loan.)

Lead Lawyer(s)
Bruce Zirinsky, Nancy Peterman, Nathan Haynes, Rob Ivanhoe, Stephen Rabinowitz

Proskauer Rose
Deal Acquisition of 1540 Broadway Size/Value $355 million Notes
Represented CB Richard Ellis in the $355 million acquisition and nancing of 1540 Broadway, a Class A ofce building.

Lead Lawyer(s)
Ron Sernau, David Weinberger

Herrick, Feinstein
Deal Acquisition of AIG Headquarters (70 Pine St.) and 72 Wall St. Size/Value $150 million Notes
Represented a consortium of Young Woo & Associates and Kumho Investment Bank in the acquisition of AIGs headquarters at 70 Pine Street and an adjacent ofce building at 72 Wall Street, for a total of 1.4 million rentable square feet.

Lead Lawyer(s)
Sheldon Chanales

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Deal Loan renance of Intrawest ULC Size/Value $1.7 billion Notes
Represented Intrawest ULC, a provider of adventure travel services and owner of golf courses, beach and ski resorts, in its agreement to renance a $1.7 billion loan.

Lead Lawyer(s)
Martha Feltenstein, Vered Rabia

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

Deal Separation of Rockrose Organization Size/Value n/a Notes
Represented the Rockrose Organization in its separation into two companies, Rockrose and TF Cornerstone, which involved the division of an extensive real estate portfolio owned by the Elghanayan brothers.

Lead Lawyer(s)
Jay Godman, Peter Kolevzon, Michael Korotkin, Christine Lutgens, Chuck Warren (partners); Fran Buchinsky, Karen Mintzer (special counsel); Dan Berman, Darius Goldman, Inge Hindriks, Soyoung Lee, Pam Swidler (associates)

Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman

Deal Sale of Garment District mixeduse building Size/Value $45.3 million Notes
Represented seller in the sale of Garment District building with 100 residential and four commercial units.

Lead Lawyer(s)
Howard Wenig, Daniel Altman, Craig Price

Rosenberg & Estis

Deal Financing for One Bryant Park Size/Value $1.275 billion Notes
Represented the joint venture of the Durst Organization and Bank of America in securing $1.275 billion in nancing for One Bryant Park, the banks investment banking headquarters.

Lead Lawyer(s)
Gary Rosenberg

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan

Deal Acquisition of Worldwide Plaza Size/Value $600 million Notes
Represented private equity fund in a joint venture in connection with the acquisition and nancing of Worldwide Plaza. (The Real Deal and other news outlets have widely reported that the investment group was led by George Comfort & Sons and RCG Longview.)

Lead Lawyer(s)
Leonard Boxer, Karen Scanna, Peter Kofer

Bryan Cave
Deal Response to Chapter 11 bankruptcy Size/Value $3.8 billion Notes
Represented special servicers LNR Partners and Capmark Finance against subsidiaries of mall operator General Growth Properties in the largest series of real estate Chapter 11 cases in history.

Lead Lawyer(s)
Lawrence Gottesman

Source: All deals were provided by the rms, and additional reporting was done by The Real Deal.

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