McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Fielding real estate, finance and restructuring expertise, McDermott Will & Emery LLP is a popular choice for private equity sponsors, lenders and developers engaging in marquee real estate development projects. The practice has a sizeable workload consisting of refinancings, restructurings, workouts, and construction loans. David Wolff and Mal Serure lead the practice from Los Angeles and Chicago respectively. Wolff is a key contact for private equity firms while Serure brings deep knowledge of the purchase of loans and purchase and sale of commercial properties to bear to advise domestic and international clients. In particular, Japanese clients can rely on Serure for specialist advice. Based in New York and Los Angeles respectively, other standout practitioners are commercial real estate experts Elias Eliopoulos, and Zena M. Ho, who closely support Serure on financing transactions and distressed matters. In the New York office, Brian Donnelly maintains strengths in the debt sector and the equity practice assisted by another highlighted practitioner, Scott Weinberg. Justin Bender is also a stand-out member of the team, routinely leading transactions involving large portfolios of properties. Benjamin Kryder and Stephanie Stein are other names of note.