Jeffrey Horwitz

Bio:

Jeffrey A. Horwitz is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department where he co-heads our Real Assets practice and runs our internationally recognized Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Group. He also has served as co-head of Mergers & Acquisitions and as a member of our Executive Committee.

Jeff is a general corporate and securities lawyer with broad-based experience in mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, and long-term joint ventures. He is regularly engaged to advise boards, management teams, family offices, founders, institutions, funds and other investors on strategic matters, from litigation to personnel to transactions. Jeff counsels clients on the full range of their activities, often acting as outside general counsel. He represents major financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, private equity and ultra high net worth family offices in sophisticated financial and other transactions. He has handled deals aggregating nearly $200 billion in value, including tender offers, "going-private" transactions, IPOs, restructuring and structured finance transactions, and mergers and acquisitions in industries as diverse as biotechnology and aerospace, retail and cable television, and education and scrap metal. He regularly handles transactions outside the U.S., including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Australia, South Africa and India.

Leading our Real Assets group, he works with a team of more than 75 lawyers from across the firm advising on complex transactions and disputes for businesses focused on the acquisition, financing, and operation of real estate. Jeff has handled virtually every type of matter, and has worked with virtually every major player in these industries, including transactions for more than 4,000 hotels comprising more than 400,000 rooms and involving more than $15 billion, as well as significant investments in major office buildings, mall and other retail properties, data centers and other facilities. His experience, both in and outside the U.S., extends to hotel and casino development and construction; private clubs, nightclubs, restaurants; theme parks; portfolio and single-property acquisitions; sales and restructurings; financings; management; marketing; reservations systems; litigation counseling and strategic planning; and ancillary services. This breadth of work is key to executing complex and sophisticated transactions, such as the acquisition and sale of branded hotel chains (Fairmont, Raffles, Swissotel, sbe Entertainment, Regent, Motel 6, Red Roof Inns, 21c Museum Hotels, TRIBE, LINE, Saguaro, City Express), strategic investments and other arrangements (Auberge, Huazhu, Faena, Banyan Tree, Delano), and REIT transactions (Hospitality Investors Trust, Eagle Hospitality).