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2024 Lawyers in Real Estate Awards
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Sasan S. Mehrara
Represented Blackstone in its acquisitions of Extended Stay America and LaQuinta
Worked with Extended America on its $1.5-billion multiple properties acquisition
Sasan S. Mehrara is Head of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s Real Estate Department and a member of the Executive Committee. He represents private equity firms, non-traded REITs, real estate opportunity funds and publicly listed companies in various domestic and international real estate transactions. Mehrara has represented the real estate funds of The Blackstone Group, Town Lane, Lindsay Goldberg, The Carlyle Group and Northwood Investors, along with companies such as Apollo Global Management, Hilton Worldwide, Extended Stay America, Link Logistics, Equity Office Properties, BioMed Realty, CorePoint Lodging and Pure Industrial in numerous commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and financings.
He represented Blackstone in its public-to-private acquisitions of Extended Stay America, Prime Hospitality, La Quinta, MeriStar Hospitality, Trizec Properties, Equity Office Properties, Hilton Worldwide, BioMed Realty, Pure Industrial, Gramercy Property Trust, WPT Industrial and PS Business Parks. He also worked with Extended America in its $1.5-billion acquisition of multiple properties.
Mehrara has been named one of the leading real estate lawyers in the United States by Chambers USA and recognized as a Law360 Real Estate MVP. He has also been recognized among Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Dealmakers in America.” Mehara is on the Advisory Board of New York University’s School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate.
This is why Sasan Mehrara received Connect CRE’s 2024 National Lawyers in Real Estate Award. The award celebrates real estate attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their practice and the larger community.