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    Jason A. Wasser

    Special Counsel

    New York +1-212-558-4000
    wasserj@sullcrom.com
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    New York

    +1-212-558-4000

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    wasserj@sullcrom.com

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    Jason Wasser is a special counsel in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Real Estate Group. He advises clients in the commercial real estate and digital infrastructure industries on a wide range of matters, including joint venture and fund formation; acquisition, financing, development, leasing and disposition of commercial properties across asset classes, including office, retail, data centers, industrial/logistics, self-storage, life sciences, multifamily, senior living and student housing; acquisition and disposition of loans and loan portfolios; and restructurings and workouts of nonperforming and distressed assets.

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    Experience

    • Alexander’s in its $400 million mortgage loan refinancing secured by the office condominium portion of 731 Lexington Avenue in New York, which serves as Bloomberg LP’s headquarters
    • Broadcom in its strategic AI compute initiatives, including its transaction with Anthropic (for $21 billion of Google Ironwood TPU chips)
    • BP in its $1.3 billion acquisition of TravelCenters of America
    • C&S Wholesale Grocers, as part of a consortium of private investors, in the acquisition of Southeastern Grocers and its Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket banners from ALDI U.S. 
    • Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in connection with a variety of industrial warehouse and distribution center co-investment acquisitions, developments and leasing transactions
    • GF Investments in its purchase of interests in numerous multifamily projects
    • Goldman Sachs affiliates in real estate development joint ventures and related construction financings, including in partnership with CLX Ventures to develop several industrial warehouses near the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport and with Core Spaces and Landmark Properties, respectively, to develop several student housing projects; the acquisition of, and related joint venture and financing work relating to, over $2 billion of office, retail, multifamily and student housing properties in partnership with various partners, including Hines, Lincoln Property Company, TMG Partners, Ballast Investments and Unico Properties; and the disposition of dozens of office, multifamily and other properties in Austin, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Lakewood, Mountain View, Seattle, San Francisco and San Mateo
    • New York Giants in connection with stadium financing matters and the sale of a minority, non-controlling interest in the Giants to Julia Koch and her family
    • NOVVA Data Centers, a portfolio company of CIM Group, in its $500 million term loan facility
    • OpenAI in connection with its $1 billion strategic partnership with SB Energy, a SoftBank Group company, as part of Stargate, and related data center and leasing matters
    • Pabst in its acquisition of an Irwindale, CA brewery from Molson Coors
    • Pacific Western Bank in its sale of a portfolio of $5.7 billion of construction loans to Kennedy Wilson Holdings and related entities
    • a real estate investment partnership in its $350 million sale of a portfolio of industrial properties in CA, DE, GA, KY, UT and TX
    • Related Fund Management in various matters, including its formation of a self-storage joint venture and its evaluation of debt investments
    • a state-owned commercial bank in its sale of a $50 million promissory note secured by real property in Oakland, CA
    • Table Properties (Ackman family investments) in its divestiture of an office building in Midtown Manhattan
    • Temasek Holdings in connection with several real estate-related equity and debt investments
    • Tishman Speyer in connection with several senior and mezzanine construction and other real estate financings, debt and equity restructurings and related matters
    • Vornado Realty Trust in connection with various acquisition, financing and other transactions, including its:
      • purchase of a $50 million B-Note secured by a Midtown Manhattan property
      • $218 million purchase of the 623 Fifth Avenue office condominium above the flagship Saks Fifth Avenue in New York
      • $141 million purchase of 3 East 54th Street in New York
      • $450 million mortgage loan financing secured by the retail and theater units at 1535 Broadway through its retail joint venture
      • $950 million refinancing secured by 1290 Avenue of the Americas in New York
      • $1.2 billion refinancing secured by the office campus at 555 California Street in San Francisco
    • Wells Fargo in its sale of 52 midwest bank branches to Flagstar Bancorp

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    Credentials

    Education

    • Harvard Law School, J.D., 2016
    • Cornell University, B.A., 2011

    Bar Admissions

    • New York

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