Aron M. Zuckerman

Based in the Firm’s New York office, Aron Zuckerman is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Real Estate Practice. He represents clients including credit funds, private equity firms, banks, insurance companies and other institutional lenders in a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions. His experience includes advising on mortgage and mezzanine financings, preferred equity structures, A/B notes, participation interests, note-on-note and repo financing facilities, co-lender and intercreditor arrangements and multi-tranche workouts and restructurings. His experience spans CMBS, balance sheet, bridge and construction loans across all major asset classes. Aron is recognized among The Legal 500 U.S. Next Generation Partners, Real Estate Finance and in Chambers USA, Real Estate: Finance (New York).  

Notable experience includes advising:

• Corebridge Financial as lead lender in connection with the recapitalization and modification of the $1.3 billion financing package secured by 5 Times Square, an office building in New York City
• Goldman Sachs as lead lender in a $985 million CMBS financing secured by a portfolio of 24 full service hotels in thirteen states
• A leading credit fund in the origination of a construction loan for a Class A multi-family project in Los Angeles, CA
• Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan in the origination of a $599 million credit facility to a leading alternative asset manager for the acquisition of a portfolio of student housing properties
• Goldman Sachs in the origination of a $275 million balance sheet loan secured by the Mauna Lani Resort in Hawaii
• A leading credit fund in the origination of a loan to enable the development of a power substation for a data center project in Texas
• KKR as mezzanine lender and B-piece buyer in connection with the modification and extension of the $32 million mezzanine loan and a $215 million CMBS loan secured by three office buildings in California  
• KSL Capital Partners in connection with the origination of mortgage and mezzanine loans secured by the JW Marriott in Anaheim, CA

Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:

• Goldman Sachs in numerous mortgage and mezzanine real estate financings, including a multi-loan financing package totaling approximately $2.4 billion to affiliates of PIMCO in connection with its take-private acquisition of Columbia Property Trust, $1.05 billion in mortgage and mezzanine loans to refinance the Fontainebleau Miami Beach and an $800 million loan to affiliates of Starwood Capital secured by a portfolio of 134 select service hotels located across the United States
• Grupo Financiero Inbursa, as lender under a $350 million construction loan as part of a $600 million financing package to construct the Cipriani Miami Residences in Miami, Florida, construction loans totaling more than $300 million for residential and retail projects at the Miami WorldCenter development and $590 million of senior project financing in connection with the construction of a manufacturing facility in Texas
• KSL Capital and JPMorgan Chase in a $380 million bridge loan financing package secured by a portfolio of citizenM hotel assets
• The Carlyle Group in a $391 million financing secured by the Hudson Yards Observation Deck AllianceBernstein, as lender, in a $170 million loan to finance the redevelopment of the historic May Hosiery site in Nashville, Tennessee, into office, retail and residential space
• A leading alternative asset manager in a mortgage and mezzanine construction financing for the development of a life science office and research complex in Somerville, Massachusetts
• AllianceBernstein in a $330 million loan to redevelop San Diego’s Horton Plaza into the Campus at Horton, a mixed-use tech campus
• A leading alternative asset manager, as mezzanine lender, in the construction financing of the Sky View Parc luxury condominium project and of a 12-story residential condominium project located at 40 Bleecker Street in New York City

Aron received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2011 and his B.A. from Yeshiva University in 2004, magna cum laude. He is admitted to practice in New York.