Real Estate

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).