Nesa Amamoo

Practice Areas

Nesa Amamoo advises clients on a broad range of matters related to real estate, real estate private equity, and finance, including joint ventures, infrastructure transactions, acquisitions and dispositions, development projects, sale-leasebacks, ground leases, U.S. and offshore private placements, special accounts, public and private REITs, opportunity zone funds, all types of real estate-based financings, loan restructurings and capital market transactions (including loan syndications, securitizations and bond issuances).

With respect to private equity, Ms. Amamoo has advised sponsor and investor clients in the formation, operation and capitalization of a broad range of U.S. and offshore private funds, and related financing, acquisition and disposition transactions, including sovereign wealth funds, BlackRock, DigitalBridge, Inc., RREEF America, Apollo Real Estate, Fortress Investment Group, Dune Capital, AREA Property Partners and Fir Tree Capital.

In the area of real estate finance, she has represented real estate companies and financial institutions, including USQ Capital, Diameter Capital, Deutsche Bank, and borrowers in the origination and sale of a wide range of debt instruments, such as traditional mortgage loans, securitized real estate loans, single- and multi-tiered mezzanine loans, construction loans and unsecured revolving credit facilities.

Professional Memberships

Co-President, Skadden Foundation

Trustee, The New York Academy of Medicine

Board Member, Anthos Home

Work Highlights

Ms. Amamoo’s notable transactions include her representation of Las Vegas Sands in connection with the sale of the Venetian and Palazzo integrated resorts. She also has represented Las Vegas Sands in connection with its acquisition of the Nassau Coliseum and its pursuit of a downstate New York gaming license and its proposed development of an integrated resort and casino in Long Island, New York.

Ms. Amamoo represented the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in numerous transactions, including: its $13 billion plan to redesign John F. Kennedy International Airport; its redevelopment of New York Stewart International Airport; and various marine terminal transactions.

Experience

Ms. Amamoo is active in pro bono work, representing, among others, nonprofit contemporary art organization The Swiss Institute. She also serves as the Co-President of the Skadden Foundation. Ms. Amamoo has been named as an Empire State Counsel Honoree by the New York State Bar Association.

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