Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced today that Sas Mehrara has been appointed as Head of the Firm’s Real Estate Practice.
“Simpson Thacher’s Real Estate Practice is well known for advising on some of the most significant deals across the sector, including six of the top 10 U.S. real estate acquisitions announced last year,” said Alden Millard, Chair of the Firm’s Executive Committee. “Sas is a highly talented, strategic advisor and an effective leader, and he will be a tremendous asset to clients and the Practice in his new role.”
Sas primarily advises private equity firms, real estate opportunity funds and publicly-listed companies in a broad mix of domestic and international real estate transactions. He has worked on more than $100 billion in public-to-private real estate transactions along with numerous private acquisitions and dispositions. He also has extensive experience in advising clients on joint ventures, mortgage and mezzanine financing matters, debt restructurings and acquisitions of performing and non-performing loans. Based in the New York office, Sas joined Simpson Thacher in 2000 and has served in a number of senior leadership roles, including as the Firm’s Co-Administrative Partner and as a member of the Executive Committee. He is a recognized thought leader in the real estate sector and serves on the Advisory Board of the NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate. He is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading real estate lawyers by Chambers USA and has received numerous accolades for his work in the sector.
“Simpson Thacher provides sophisticated advice to the world’s premier private equity real estate fund managers on industry-shaping matters across all areas of the real estate sector,” said Sas. “I look forward to partnering with our clients in this new role and leading such a talented group of lawyers.”
Clients turn to Simpson Thacher’s Real Estate Practice for advice on their most complex and significant real estate matters, spanning all areas of the industry, including mergers and acquisitions of both public and private real estate companies, sales and acquisitions of portfolios and individual assets, financings, debt acquisitions, real estate development, joint ventures, debt restructurings and workouts, and equity recapitalizations. With approximately 100 lawyers across the Firm’s New York, London and Hong Kong offices, the Real Estate team is international and multidisciplinary in scope, enabling the Firm to offer institutional real estate investors a single source of advice for their most complex real estate matters.
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