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Ms Whitney Salinas
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Work Department
Corporate; Real Estate
Position
Whitney Salinas is a Partner in the Firm’s Real Estate Department focusing on real estate finance. She regularly represents private equity firms and portfolio companies on some of the most significant real estate matters in the market. This includes a broad range of commercial real estate financing transactions including CMBS, balance sheet, mezzanine, agency and construction financings as well as market-leading, complex transactions involving a variety of asset classes, such as data centers, industrial, hospitality, office, studio, life-science, retail, self-storage and manufactured homes, among others.
Career
Joined Firm, 2009; Partner, 2019.
Education
B.A., Northwestern University (2006); J.D., cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center (2009).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
(Next Generation Partners)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
- Next Generation Partners United States > Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate United States > Real estate
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