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    Isaac J. Wheeler

    Partner

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    Isaac Wheeler is the co-head of the Firm's Tax Group. He represents a wide range of clients, including financial institutions and other multinational corporations, asset managers, real estate developers, and private individuals. Mr. Wheeler works on M&A, real estate, joint venture, hedge fund, private equity, and partnership transactions. He also regularly works with S&C’s Estates and Personal Group in advising families and individuals in connection with their estate planning transactions and their worldwide investments.

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    Experience

    Experience

    • AT&T in its:
      • joint venture with TPG Capital establishing DirecTV
      • pending sale of its business unit Vrio to Grupo Werthein
      • spin-off of WarnerMedia into Discovery
      • $1.43 billion sale of its minority stake in Hulu back to the streaming video joint venture
      • $108.7 billion acquisition of Time Warner
    • Bellco Capital in its formation of Breakthrough Properties, a joint venture with Tishman Speyer, to acquire, develop and operate life science properties in leading technology centers, and Breakthrough in its acquisition of a property located in Boston’s Seaport District, with 250,000 square feet of development rights

    • Blackstone in connection with Precision Medicine Group’s major investment and recapitalization, led by funds managed by Blackstone
    • Blue Pool Capital, as a significant equity holder in Owl Rock Capital Group, in connection with Owl Rock Capital and Dyal Capital Partners’ formation of Blue Owl Capital
    • Broad Street Principal Investments, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs, in its $710 million acquisition of a 27-building portfolio of repositioned historic and newly constructed office assets located in Seattle and Denver totaling 1.8 million square feet from Unico Investment Group
    • c0ntact gaming in its acquisition of the Paris franchise of the newly created Call of Duty League
    • Cedar Capital Partners, as a member of a joint venture with King Street Real Estate and Westdale Properties, in the $120 million acquisition of the Shelborne South Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida
    • CIT Group in its pending merger with First Citizens
    • Colson Associates in the sale of its majority interest in the Colson Medical Companies to Marmon Holdings, a Berkshire Hathaway company
    • Crescent Capital in the $338 million sale of a 51% stake in Crescent to Sun Life Financial
    • DM Esports in its agreement to join The Overwatch League as the owner of an expansion franchise in Paris, France
    • First Bancorp of Durango in its acquisition by Triumph Bancorp
    • GAF in its €1 billion acquisition of Icopal
    • Giants Development Services, an affiliate of The San Francisco Giants, in its joint venture with Tishman Speyer to develop the waterfront Mission Rock mixed-use neighborhood near Oracle Park
    • Goldman Sachs in its:
      • €1.7 billion acquisition of NN Investment Partners
      • $2 billion acquisition of GreenSky
      • acquisition of Folio Financial
    • Intel Corporation in connection with Micron Technology’s acquisition of Intel’s interest in the parties’ joint venture, IM Flash Technologies
    • Joe Tsai in his acquisition of the:
      • Barclays Center and the Brooklyn Nets
      • WNBA team known as the New York Liberty
    • KKR & Co. in its acquisition of two commercial office condominium units comprising the top 10 office floors, approximately 343,000 square feet, at 30 Hudson Yards
    • Piper Jaffray in its $485 million acquisition of Sandler O’Neill
    • Piper Sandler in its acquisition of The Valence Group
    • Special Committee of the Board of Directors of CIM Real Estate Finance Trust in its acquisitions of Cole Office & Industrial REIT and Cole Credit Property Trust V and proposed acquisition of Cole Office & Industrial REIT
    • Standard Industries in its:
      • $7 billion acquisition of W. R. Grace
      • $2.1 billion acquisition of Braas Monier Building Group
    • TS Innovations Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, in its $1.56 billion merger with Latch
    • Verily, an Alphabet company, in its joint venture with Santen Pharmaceutical
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    Rankings and Recognitions

    Rankings and Recognitions

    • Law360, 2022 MVP in Tax
    • The American Lawyer, “Dealmaker of the Year” in 2022
    • Chambers USA, recognized for Tax – New York (Band 5)
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    News

    News

    • S&C Advises Diversified Healthcare Trust on Merger with Office Properties Income Trust

      April 13, 2023
    • S&C Advises FGS in Growth Investment from KKR

      April 13, 2023
    • S&C Advises Sempra Infrastructure Partners in Port Arthur LNG Project Financing and Announced Sale of Interest in the Project to KKR

      March 30, 2023
    • S&C Advises J.P. Morgan on Acquisition of Aumni

      March 29, 2023
    • S&C Advises New York Community Bancorp Subsidiary Flagstar Bank in Acquisition of Assets and Liabilities from Signature Bridge Bank

      March 22, 2023
    • S&C Advises Credit Suisse in Sale of Significant Portion of Securitized Products Group to Apollo Affiliates

      March 9, 2023
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    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    • U.S. Clean Energy Tax Credits: Where We Are and Where We Are Going

      Podcasts May 25, 2023
    • A Discussion of Recent Internal Revenue Service Guidance

      Podcasts January 31, 2023
    • U.S. Tax Outlook Post-Midterms

      Podcasts December 2, 2022
    • A Discussion of In Re Grand Jury

      Podcasts October 25, 2022
    • Three Corporate Tax Changes Under the Inflation Reduction Act

      Podcasts September 29, 2022
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    Credentials

    Credentials

    Education

    • New York University School of Law, J.D., 2009
    • University of Michigan, B.A., 2003

    Bar Admissions

    • New York
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    Related Practices

    Related Practices

    • Tax
    • Commercial Real Estate
    • Digital Assets
    • Energy Transition
    • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
    • REITs
    • Tax Controversy
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