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Simpson Thacher was profiled as a Law360 Real Estate Practice Group of the Year for 2021. This is the Firm’s ninth year being named as a Real Estate Practice Group of the Year, making it the most recognized law firm in the category.

The Firm was lauded for its work advising on multiple significant matters over the last year, including Blackstone’s $10 billion acquisition of data center solutions company QTS Realty Trust, $7.3 billion acquisition of several AIG real estate assets and $5.65 billion pending sale of The Cosmopolitan, among other deals. Greg Ressa, Head of the Firm’s Real Estate Practice, highlighted that while the real estate sector is still recovering from the pandemic, “real estate generally has rebounded very strongly in 2021 but certain asset classes are outperforming other real estate asset classes significantly.” When describing the many types of asset classes the Firm worked on over the past year, Partner Sas Mehrara, explained that, among other areas, logistics has been a "very hot area" for transactions and that industrial warehouses “have become highly valuable.”

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