David C. Drewes Partner MAIN OFFICE: New York Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019-6099, U.S.A. T 212-728-8653 F 212-728-9653

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David C. Drewes is a partner in the Real Estate Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Mr. Drewes focuses on all types of real estate transactions, including complex acquisitions, dispositions, financings, joint ventures, restructurings, development transactions, REIT matters, ground and space leases, and construction agreements. He represents a broad variety of clients, including private developers, public real estate companies, lenders, preferred equity investors and other real estate investors in transactions involving all real estate asset classes, ranging from hospitality to senior housing, office buildings to residential/multifamily projects, and specialized-use facilities (e.g., high-tech data centers) to raw and/or partially developed land.

• Represented Goldman Sachs in connection with its acquisition and restructuring of a $180 million mortgage loan secured by the YOTEL New York hotel, located just west of Times Square.
  
  
• Represented Paramount Group in connection with its acquisition of multiple Manhattan office buildings, including 60 Wall Street and 31 West 52nd Street.
  
  
• Representing major private land development enterprise in connection with restructurings of over $1.7 billion of debt with over 20 different lenders.
  
  
• Represented Trinity Church in connection with a development ground lease with respect to a planned 300,000-plus square foot mixed-use project.
  
  
• Represented a closely held real estate investment firm in connection with the recent recapitalization of 650 Madison Avenue – a midtown Manhattan trophy mixed-use building.
  
  
• Advised on multiple mortgage, mezzanine and preferred equity investments for Lehman Brothers with respect to a wide variety of asset classes, including luxury condominiums, data centers and luxury golf-course and residential developments.
  
  
• Negotiated and closed multiple mortgage and mezzanine financings and joint venture restructurings for Mills and Apollo Real Estate.
  
  
• Represented hotel REIT DiamondRock Hospitality on various acquisitions and financings for single assets and portfolios, as well as with respect to its $200 million unsecured corporate credit facility.
  
  
• Negotiated leases for nearly 1,000,000 square feet in the aggregate for Lehman Brothers, including 1301 Avenue of the Americas and 1271 Avenue of the Americas.
  
  
• Advise Ventas, Inc., a major healthcare REIT, in connection with various acquisition and financing matters, including its acquisition of Cogdell Spencer Inc.
  
  
• Closed the acquisition, joint venture and financing arrangements for multiple hospitality and residential assets for private developer Scout Real Estate Capital.