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    Robert M. Schlein

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    Rob Schlein is Managing Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s Real Estate Group and is co-Managing Partner of the Firm’s global General Practice Group. Mr. Schlein was co-Managing Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell’s London office from 2008 to 2011. Mr. Schlein also coordinates real estate matters for Sullivan & Cromwell’s global office network.

    Mr. Schlein has a broad-based multinational transactional practice. He advises private equity funds, companies and other investors with respect to a wide variety of real estate, infrastructure-related and other asset-backed transactions in the United States and Europe, including senior and mezzanine debt financings, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and commercial condominium matters. Mr. Schlein also has worked extensively on the formation and fund-raising activities of numerous real estate-related private equity and debt funds, managed accounts and other investment vehicles.

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    Mr. Schlein’s recent transactional work includes representation of:

    • Goldman Sachs Asset Management in connection with its investing, investment management and capital-raising activities, including multiple joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, financings, restructurings, workouts and fund formations relating to industrial/logistics, multi-family build-to-rent homes/townhomes, student housing, office, retail and hotel properties across the United States and in Europe
    • a joint venture between Related Fund Management and The Community Preservation Corporation in connection with its acquisition of interests in entities formed by the FDIC to hold approximately $5.8 billion of Signature Bank loans collateralized by rent-stabilized or rent-controlled multifamily properties
    • Related Fund Management in connection with its acquisition of a portfolio of cold storage facilities and the formation of several office, hotel, logistics and self-storage joint ventures
    • NMG, parent company of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, in its $2.7 billion acquisition by HBC, parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue
    • CBRE Group in its acquisition of Direct Line Global from Guardian Capital
    • Joe Tsai and Blue Pool in connection with various sports-related and investment transactions, including in connection with the issuance of a minority interest in BSE Global, the parent company of the Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty and Barclays Center, to investors Julia Koch and her children
    • Temasek Holdings in connection with multiple real-estate related equity and debt investments

    • Fiserv, Inc. in connection with its New York headquarters leasing arrangements
    • McCourt Partners in its acquisition of a core piece of the Dallas Design District through a partnership with HN Capital Partners
    • Quiet Logistics in connection with American Eagle’s $350 million acquisition of Quiet Logistics and strategic investments
    • KKR & Co. L.P. in connection with its purchase of a 343,000 square foot office condominium unit in 30 Hudson Yards
    • Tishman Speyer in connection with various mortgage loan financings, construction loan financings, separate account arrangements and other transactional matters
    • a sovereign wealth fund in connection with its investment in a U.S. REIT and various real estate joint venture arrangements
    • CIM Group in connection with multiple mortgage loan financings and refinancings and acquisition/joint venture transactions
    • Dune Real Estate Partners in connection with its GP/management company arrangements
    • founders/sponsors in connection with the formation of a €4 billion European real estate debt fund (and prior funds)
    • NTT Urban Development Corporation in multiple acquisitions of interests in office properties in Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C. and related joint venture and mortgage loan financing arrangements
    • Olshan Properties in connection with joint venture and loan transactions
    • a family office in connection with its co-investment arrangements with major private equity funds and evaluation of potential investments in MLB, NBA and NHL teams
    • a family office in its acquisition of a 96-room luxury resort in the Caribbean
    • private investors in connection with three separate Freddie Mac mortgage loan financings of multi-family properties ($325 million, $186 million and $160 million)
    • Frank McCourt in the $2.15 billion sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team to Guggenheim Baseball Management
    • ING Group in the $1 billion sale of the business and operations of ING Real Estate Investment Management in the United States, Europe and Asia

    Mr. Schlein is a member of the Amherst College Committee to Nominate Alumni Trustees, the Harvard Law School Dean's Leadership Council of New York and the Stamford Hospital Foundation Board of Directors.

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    News

    • S&C Advises Ares in Acquisition of Epika Fleet Services

      April 22, 2025
    • S&C Advises Tsai Family in Sale of Sports Business Minority Stake to Koch Family

      July 15, 2024
    • S&C Advises Neiman Marcus Group in Agreement to be Acquired by HBC for $2.65 Billion

      July 8, 2024
    • S&C Advises Amgen in Obtaining FTC and Global Clearances of Its $27.8 Billion Acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, Leading to Deal’s Closing

      October 13, 2023
    • S&C Advises Cementos Argos in Merger with Summit Materials

      September 20, 2023
    • S&C Advises Oaktree on Financings for Rayonier Advanced Materials and Pitney Bowes

      August 1, 2023
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    Credentials

    Credentials

    Education

    • Harvard Law School, J.D., 1992
    • Amherst College, B.A., 1989

    Bar Admissions

    • New York

    Clerkships

    • The Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1992-1993
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