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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Offices
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NEW YORK
United States
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Harris B. Freidus
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Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1987
A.B., Harvard College, 1983
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
The New York City based real estate team at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP regularly advises major private equity firms, public and private companies, developers and government institutions including the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on both sides of high-value transactions, debt and equity financing, corporate structuring and developmental work. In addition to residential, retail, and industrial developments, the firm is also noted for its breadth of expertise covering data centers, gaming and hospitality, higher education, and the healthcare sector, where the firm advises large providers like Northwell Health. The real estate department is headed by chair Harris B. Freidus who covers a wide spectrum of real estate and infrastructure matters including those relating to joint ventures, construction, restructuring, and leasing. Salvatore Gogliormella focuses on acquisitions, dispositions, and financings with a particular niche in healthcare industry assets like nursing facilities, hospitals, and medical office buildings. Partner Peter E. Fisch is another leading name with experience covering transactions, financings, workouts, and lease work across a plethora of sectors, including student housing and hotel.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism