USA Guide 2026 : New York
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Simpson Thacher has one of the most sophisticated and diversified real estate practices delivering premier service across real estate finance, sales and acquisitions, restructurings, real estate development, joint ventures, co-investments and partnerships. The Firm’s synthesis of real estate experience with its leading corporate practices – M&A, capital markets, banking and restructuring –offers institutional real estate investors a single source of advice for their most complex real estate matters.
Simpson Thacher represents clients of all types and sizes, from private equity sponsors and real estate opportunity funds to publicly-listed companies, REITs, lenders and investment banking firms. The Firm advises clients across the full lifecycle of their investments, supporting roles such as purchaser, investor, borrower, lender, owner, operator, issuer, with expertise across the spectrum of real estate asset classes.
The Firm was named a “Real Estate Practice Group of the Year” by Law360 in eight of the past ten years, including 2025. Our real estate and digital infrastructure teams provide coordinated advice on data center transactions, earning recognition as top legal advisor for both deal value and deal count for data center transactions globally based on Infralogic’s 2025 and 2024 league tables. The Firm was also recognized as the winner of the 2025 “Data Center Deal of the Year” and the 2024 “Top Legal Adviser, Data Center M&A Transactions by Deal Value” (TMT Finance).
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has a distinguished real estate group that advises on the full range of complex property transactions and financings across a wide variety of asset classes. The team regularly works with private equity houses and funds on high value deals.
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett represented Blackstone and one of its portfolio companies with eighteen separate CMBS financings totaling more than $17 billion.
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Simpson Thacher is without a doubt the top counsel on our roster.
The Simpson Thacher team was able to roll with the punches and help find solutions for the issues that arose.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is clearly a market-leader in real estate M&A and funds. Their team, approach and expertise have been confidence-inspiring, and their knowledge of the market is unsurpassed.
Simpson Thacher has been an amazing partner to us on our real estate deals.
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Sasan Mehrara counsels major investor clients on substantial acquisitions and dispositions of property. He offers additional expertise in joint venture formation and high value financings.
He is calm under pressure and has a wealth of experience and is always available to speak or help us solve problems, using creativity and a collaborative approach.
Sasan Mehrara also has a very strong ability to think as a partner. I love working with him for that reason.
I'm pleased to have someone with such great judgment, skill and knowledge representing us.
Aron is quick, knowledgeable, commercial, efficient and provides flawless execution.
Aron is commercial, even keeled and very responsive.
Aron is exceptionally knowledgeable, very practical and very focused on complicated transactions and helping businesses to resolve and think through complicated business issues.
Scott Kobak frequently advises on high value acquisitions as well as complex financing matters. He counts numerous leading investors among his clients and has expertise in data centers.
Scott is a very strong partner with the ability to provide balanced guidance and creative solutions.
Scott is a very experienced lawyer with a keen sense of commercial judgment. He knows how to get to a deal and which points we should really focus on.
Whitney is very organized and good to work with.
Whitney has a very strong partnership and awareness of market terms and where opportunities exist to push the market.
Real Estate: Corporate
Real Estate: Corporate
Real Estate: Corporate
Real Estate: Finance
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Aron Zuckerman
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View profile of Scott M KobakWhitney W Salinas
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Practice area: Real Estate
Location: Global: Multi-Jurisdictional
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