Steven L. Wilner’s practice focuses on real estate, financial, and corporate matters, ranging from global real estate acquisitions, dispositions, development, finance, and restructuring to international mergers and acquisitions and restructurings, including private equity investments and joint ventures in the real estate, hospitality, and infrastructure areas.
Steven joined the firm in 1988 and became a partner in 1997. He spent 2001-2005 as a partner in the firm’s former Tokyo office.
Notable Experiences
Regular counsel to Brookfield Asset Management, including:
- its $2.5 billion acquisition of Associated Estates, a publicly traded multifamily REIT;
- its $1 billion acquisition of a 49% interest in seven multifamily and mixed-used properties in New York, California, and Hawaii, and its formation of a joint venture with Carmel Partners;
- its PIPE investment of $400 million in American Realty Capital Hospitality Trust, another REIT;
- its acquisition of Thayer Lodging’s hospitality asset management and investment advisory business; and
- its acquisition of the Leela Hotel chain in India.
The syndicate of banks in the financing of Brookfield Asset Management’s $11.4 billion acquisition of Forest City.
Regular outside counsel to seven of the top 10 sovereign wealth funds in their acquisition, disposition, and financing transactions.
Mapletree Investments in its $2.39 billion acquisition of a portfolio of 164 U.S. industrial assets from Exeter Property Group.
Transamerica in its sale of the 48-story Transamerica Pyramid building complex in San Francisco for $650 million to a joint venture between real estate developer Michael Shvo and private equity firm Deutsche Finance America, the largest commercial real estate transaction in the U.S. since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Barclays Capital in its acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ North American investment banking and capital markets business as well as its Manhattan headquarters and certain other real estate assets.
Colony Capital in the negotiation of a joint venture with Aimbridge Hospitality to acquire the Jameson Inns chain of 103 limited service hotels.
Keysight Technologies in real estate matters associated with its $1.6 billion acquisition of Ixia.
Samsonite in real estate matters associated with its $1.8 billion acquisition of Tumi.
Genting Group in its acquisitions of Crystal Cruises and 40 acres of waterfront development sites in downtown Miami, Florida, and in the financing and development of a $1 billion resort casino with the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in southeast Massachusetts.
Resort World New York in its successful bid to the New York State Division of Lottery for the development of a casino with 4,525 video lottery terminals at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.
YOTEL and IFA Hotels & Resorts in the development, opening, and financing of the YOTEL New York City, the first YOTEL location in the United States, and in joint ventures with the John Buck Companies and Synapse Capital to develop additional YOTEL properties throughout the United States.
A sovereign wealth fund in connection with the structuring and establishment of a platform to develop residential developments throughout India with local development partners.
Publications
FinCEN Requests Input on Potential AML Requirements for Real Estate Transactions
Federal Banking Agencies Issue COVID-19 Relief Allowing Deferral of Real Estate Appraisals
Preparing for a Foreclosure: A Checklist for Commercial Real Estate Lenders
Highlights of the CARES Act Affecting the Real Estate Industry
Top Considerations for the Retail Industry – What Mall Owners Should be Thinking About
Events
November 19, 2024
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2024
August 12, 2024
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2024
February 15, 2024
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2024
November 20, 2023
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2023
August 14, 2023
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2023
May 22, 2023
October 31, 2022
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2022
August 15, 2022
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2022
February 10, 2022
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2022
November 1, 2021
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2021
August 16, 2021
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2021
February 11, 2021
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2021
November 17, 2020
November 11, 2019
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2019
September 12, 2019
August 7, 2019
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2019
December 4, 2018
November 27, 2018
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2018
December 5, 2017
December 5, 2016
November 29, 2016
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2016
November 28, 2016
February 26, 2016
PLI’s Bridge-the-Gap II: Ethics and Skills for Newly Admitted New York Attorneys 2016
December 1, 2015
June 23, 2015
May 13, 2015
April 1, 2015
PLI’s Real Estate Purchase and Sale Agreements: Due Diligence, Documentation and Key Issues
November 20, 2014
November 21, 2013
September 25, 2013
February 14, 2013
November 8, 2012
May 15, 2009