Whitney W. Salinas

Whitney Salinas is a Partner in the Firm’s Real Estate Department. She regularly represents private equity firms and portfolio companies on some of the most significant real estate matters in the market. This includes a broad range of commercial real estate financing transactions including CMBS, balance sheet, mezzanine, construction financings, NAV facilities and other bespoke financing solutions as well as market leading, complex transactions involving a variety of asset classes, such as industrial, hospitality, office, data centers, studio, life-science, retail, self-storage and manufactured homes, among others.

Whitney is ranked as Up and Coming by Chambers USA, a Next Generation Partner by The Legal 500. Clients have described her as a “fantastic lawyer with great commercial instincts.” Whitney was named one of GlobeSt.’s 2023 “Women of Influence” in Commercial Real Estate Legal Counsel and profiled as one of Bloomberg Law's “40 Under 40” for 2022. She was also recently named “Best in Real Estate” at Euromoney’s “Americas Rising Stars” awards and her work representing Blackstone in its $7.6 billion acquisition of Gramercy Property Trust was celebrated as a “Deal of the Year.” She was also recognized as a Law360 “Rising Star” in Real Estate for 2019.

Whitney’s recent transactions include representing:

• Blackstone in connection with:
  • Financing in connection with its $5.65 billion acquisition of Safe Harbor Marinas
  • Financing in connection with its $4 billion acquisition of Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.
  • Financing in connection with the A$24 billion (US$16.1 billion) acquisition of AirTrunk
  • Financing in connection with its $10 billion acquisition of Apartment Income REIT Corp.
  • CMBS and balance sheet financing in connection with its acquisition of QTS Realty Trust valued at $10 billion
  • Financing in connection with its $7.6 billion acquisition of PS Business Parks
  • Multiple CMBS and balance sheet loans in connection with its $7.6 billion acquisition of Gramercy Property Trust
  • CMBS financing in connection with its $6 billion acquisition with Starwood Capital Group of Extended Stay America
  • Financing related to its $3.6 billion acquisition of Bluerock Residential Growth REIT
• Switch in connection with the $2.4 billion CMBS refinancing of three data center properties in Nevada
• QTS in connection with over $10 billion in CMBS and balance sheet financings
• LBA Realty in connection with multiple CMBS financings totaling over $1.1 billion and secured by 47 properties in 13 states
• Indus Realty in connection with the acquisition and financing of a portfolio of 20 industrial properties located in North Carolina and South Carolina
• Cologix in its financing of one of its hyperscale data centers
• Great Wolf Resorts in over $2.5 billion of CMBS financings of Great Wolf Resorts properties in 2024
• Motel 6 in several CMBS financings of its U.S. assets
• Centerbridge Partners in its $850 million mortgage and mezzanine financing of a portfolio of mobile home parks
• KSL in connection with the financing of its acquisition of two full-service hotels

Whitney received her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 2009 and her B.A. from Northwestern University in 2006.