Davis Coen

Davis Coen is a Partner in the Firm’s New York office, where he is a member of the Real Estate Practice. Davis represents private equity firms and portfolio companies in a wide range of domestic and international commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, public-to-private transactions and securitized and mezzanine financings. Before returning to New York in 2016, Davis spent two years in the Firm’s London office.

Davis was named a 2020 “Rising Star in Real Estate” by Crain’s New York Business. He was recognized for his role advising on standout real estate deals.

Davis’ recent transactions have included:

• Blackstone in the $18.7 billion acquisition of GLP’s logistics business – the largest private real estate transaction in history
• Blackstone in the $5.1 billion acquisition of AIG's interests in a U.S. affordable housing portfolio
• Blackstone in the $2.2 billion sale of Simply Safe Storage to Public Storage
• KKR in the $1.8 billion acquisition of a portfolio of senior living properties from Welltower, Inc.
• Blackstone in the approximately $1.2 billion acquisition of two major office towers in Seattle from Ivanhoe Cambridge and its partners
• Blackstone in the $3.8 billion acquisition of Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust
• Blackstone Real Estate Investment Trust in the $1.8 billion acquisition of the Canyon Industrial Portfolio from Cabot Properties
• Blackstone in connection with the acquisition of BioMed Realty and in various subsequent sales and financings
• Blackstone in its acquisition of GE Capital Real Estate assets in a transaction valued at approximately $23 billion
• BioMed Realty in connection with its sale of all of the life science and medical real estate assets of Wexford Science & Technology LLC to Ventas Inc. for $1.5 billion
• Blackstone in connection with its $1.125 billion acquisition of 64 senior living properties located in 19 states from HCP, Inc.
• Blackstone in its acquisition of seven office assets in California and Washington from Hines Real Estate Investment Trust for $1.162 billion
• Blackstone and its portfolio companies in the acquisition and financing of several portfolios of industrial properties, both in the U.S. and in Europe
• Northwood in its acquisition of more than 7.1 million square feet of office and industrial properties located throughout the United Kingdom from certain funds managed by Highcross Strategic Advisors Limited for $992 million (£645 million)
• Blackstone in its $26 billion acquisition of Hilton Hotels
• Carlyle in multiple commercial real estate acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and financings

Davis received his J.D., cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 2008, where he was Senior Notes Editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. He graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2002 with a B.A., magna cum laude, and was a University Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.