中国经济增长的减速、英国和欧盟经济的不确定性、新的银行监管要求以及美国加息，均可能导致将会影响贸易、消费价格和利率的地缘政治性波动。此类动荡为全球房地产市场带来新的挑战。昨天的策略在今天快速变化的世界根本行不通。

随着商业地产资本市场增长放缓，并且部分永久商业地产债务资本提供者之间的竞争日益加剧，对于资本的争夺可能会成为问题。虽然贷款环境日益严峻，但是，房地产科技潮蓬勃发展，对工业地产、多住户地产和零售地产的需求继续保持强劲，这二者相辅相成之势与相关的融资活动相结合，预期未来将会继续影响房地产市场的走向。

与机构投资者、开发商、业主、贷款人及承销商合作，本所的跨专业团队主导经办了全球部分最具挑战性、最复杂的房地产交易。无论客户处于何地，我们总能找到创新的方案来帮助他们实现战略目标。在此过程中，我们帮助客户成功解决他们可能面对的政治、监管、经济和技术方面的挑战。

我们的团队理解房地产债务产品领域的国际投资者、贷款人、代收账公司、代理银行和借款人的特殊化需求。代表股权投资者也是我们业务的核心板块，因为我们经常为个人投资者、合资合营企业及投资基金提供意见和建议。我们这支团队的业务经验足以令客户信赖，我们作为先驱，开发了一系列高度成功的、成熟的房地产融资技术，其中包括史上第一次为墨西哥的一支FIBRA（基础设施及房地产投资信托基金）进行企业循环授信、史上第一次为日本一个不良债权投资组合资产包进行银团融资、史上第一次为一支欧洲房地产投资基金进行认购融资。

• Unibail-Rodamco SE | represented Unibail-Rodamco on its proposed $25 billion acquisition of Westfield Corporation. This transaction will create a global property leader with €61.1 billion (US$72.2 billion) of gross market value and a presence in 27 of the world’s most attractive retail markets and cities
• Moynihan Train Hall Redevelopment Project | represented the Department of Transportation on the $526 million financing of the construction of the Moynihan Train Hall Redevelopment Project in New York City. The project will help transform the James A. Farley Post Office Building to a modern, state-of-the-art train station and will deliver critical improvements and expansions that will ease congestion and delays in Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor rail service
• Digital Realty Trust | represented Citibank, N.A. in connection with $1.4 billion in senior unsecured bridge financing commitments and $104 million in secured financing commitments for Digital Realty Trust, L.P.’s acquisition of DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. The all-stock transaction has an enterprise value of $7.6 billion
• SL Green Realty Corp. | represented a joint venture of SL Green Realty Corp. and Jeff Sutton affiliates with respect to an expansion of their leasehold at 650 Fifth Avenue in New York City and a simultaneous lease transaction with Nike, Inc. The building at 52nd Street is located on Fifth Avenue's most expensive retail strip
• Taikang Insurance Group | represented Taikang Insurance Group (Taikang) on the establishment of a joint venture with New York-based NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. (NorthStar). Through the joint venture, Taikang will acquire approximately US$1 billion interest at a valuation of US$6.1 billion in NorthStar’s existing portfolio of healthcare assets in the United States and the United Kingdom
• LaSalle Hotel Operating Partnership, L.P. | represented Citibank, N.A. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in connection with $1.05 billion in senior unsecured credit facilities for LaSalle Hotel Operating Partnership, L.P. The facilities include a $750 million revolving credit facility (with a letter of credit sub-facility) and a $300 million term loan facility
• Qatar Investment Authority | represented Qatar Investment Authority on its investment in Manhattan West, a development site valued upon completion at up to US$8.6 billion
• Major League Baseball & | represented the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball d/b/a Major League Baseball and MLB Advanced Media, L.P. with respect to the leasing of 400,000 rentable square feet of office space at 1271 Avenue of the Americas in New York City, a building owned by the Rockefeller Group
• Olayan America | represented Olayan America, a division of The Olayan Group, in connection with its $1.4 billion acquisition of the former Sony Building at 550 Madison Avenue in New York City. The firm also represented Olayan America for the financing portion of the acquisition, which included a $570 million mortgage from ING Capital LLC
• SL Green Realty Corp. | represented SL Green Realty Corp. in its $1.8 billion sale of 388-390 Greenwich Street to Citigroup Inc. The two combined buildings had been owned by the bank before it was sold to a partnership between SL Green and Ivanhoe Cambridge in 2007 for $1.6 billion, in a deal which included an option to buy the building back. The 2.7 million-square-foot office complex has been, and will continue to be, used as campus headquarters for Citigroup's divisions of Global Wealth Management and Global Trading
• General Growth Properties, Inc. | represented U.S. Bank National Association in connection with a $1.4 billion term loan to affiliates of General Growth Properties, Inc. secured by 15 shopping malls located in 14 states.
• Digital Realty Trust | represented Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in connection with Digital Realty Trust’s $3.55 billion global revolving credit facility and term loans.
• SportsNet New York | represented SportsNet New York in connection with a 15-year headquarters lease at 4 World Trade Center, which is part of the recently developed World Trade Center complex in Downtown Manhattan.
• Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta | represented HSBC Bank, USA, N.A. and BBVA Bancomer in connection with $250 million in senior unsecured credit facilities for Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta
• Fibra Prologis | represented Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, in connection with a $400 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility for Fibra Prologis—the first-ever senior unsecured revolving credit facility for a FIBRA (a Mexican REIT)
• Independence Realty Trust | represented KeyBank National Association in connection with $300 million in senior unsecured credit facilities for affiliates of Independence Realty Trust, Inc. The credit facilities consist of a $50 million term loan and a $250 million revolving credit facility