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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Offices
425 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10017-3954
NEW YORK
United States
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Krista Miniutti
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Work Department
Corporate; Real Estate
Position
Partner in the firm’s Real Estate Department and Co-Chair of the firm’s Women’s Committee. Krista represents private equity firms and portfolio companies in commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and financings. Named as “Real Estate Lawyer of the Year” for Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Americas Awards 2022 and a Law360 2022 “MVP” in Real Estate, Krista has represented clients on a broad range of domestic and international real estate transactions, including public-to-private transactions, securitized and mezzanine financings, and portfolio acquisitions. She regularly advises clients on all aspects of their transactions, including coordinating advice from internal and external tax advisors and ERISA and Fund counsel. Krista’s clients include the real estate funds of The Blackstone Group, KSL Capital Partners and Westbrook Partners.
Career
Joined Firm, 2011; Elected Partner, 2014.
Memberships
Law360 2022 Real Estate Editorial Advisory Board.
Education
B.A., University of Scranton (1993); J.D., St. John’s University School of Law (1996)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
(Leading lawyers)Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is best known for its complex advisory work for leading private equity funds and alternative asset management companies such as The Carlyle Group, Northwood Investors, and, in particular, Blackstone. Offering full-cycle support on large transactions and real estate developments, the team has extensive experience advising on an array of asset classes ranging from hospitality to multi-family residentials, logistics to data centers. The practice is led by Sasan Mehrara, taking over from highly experienced real estate attorney Gregory Ressa in 2023. Scott Kobak ‘is a terrific lawyer with amazing people skills‘ and can often be seen advising institutional investors on sizeable acquisitions, financings and developments. ‘Highly skilled negotiator’ Krista Miniutti is noted on transactions encompassing public-to-private, securitized and mezzanine financings, while M&A and real estate partner Anthony King brings considerable cross-border transaction experience in the US and Asia, together with expertise in securities and corporate governance aspects of deals. On the finance side, partner Whitney Salinas brings experience encompassing CMBS, balance sheet, and construction financings to name a few. The practice has extensive experience advising on M&As involving public and private companies, portfolio sales and acquisitions, and deal and debt structuring and financing, among other areas.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Project finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Finance > Fintech