Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Real Estate

Wheatly MacNamara is Managing Partner of the Firm’s London office and a member of the Firm's Executive Committee. She is head of the London Real Estate M&A practice and co-head of the London Real Estate group.

Wheatly concentrates her practice on real estate acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures, particularly for private capital sponsors. She represents such leading international fund sponsors as Blackstone, KKR, KSL, Starwood, Apollo and Sixth Street. She has notably advised Blackstone in multiple transactions, including the over 200 acquisitions that became the Mileway last-mile logistics platform, as well as its €21 billion recapitalisation. She also acted for Blackstone on its $7 billion hyperscale data center development joint venture with Digital Realty, C$6.2 billion take-private acquisition of Dream Global REIT, its €12.25 billion sale of Logicor to CIC and its €630.7 million acquisition of Hotel Investment Partners and subsequent sale to GIC of its 35% stake in the company. She has acted for a range of sponsors on joint ventures and operating partner platforms, including with operating partners such as M7, Valor and Cabot.

Joined Simpson Thacher in 2005 and was made partner in 2016.

Duke University, 2001 B.A. and B.S.; Stanford Law School, 2005 J.D. Stanford Law Review; Stanford Journal of International Law.