Gary Axelrod

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Gary Axelrod, Global Co-Chair of the firm's Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Industry Group, advises clients on many of their most complex and highest-profile real estate transactions.

Nationally recognized as a leading real estate lawyer, Mr. Axelrod delivers creative and strategic counsel to real estate private equity sponsors and funds, institutional investors, operating companies, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and entrepreneurial developers. His experience spans all types of transactions and asset classes, with a particular focus on hotels, resorts, and gaming properties. He also brings substantial experience advising on international projects, including in Canada, China, Dubai, India, Abu Dhabi, and Mexico. He regularly advises on complex single-asset acquisitions and dispositions, portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, entity-level mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, including platform and strategic joint ventures and public-private partnerships, development projects, debt and equity financings, and bankruptcies and restructurings, including complex asset-level and corporate-level restructurings.