Audrey Sokoloff serves as a global head of the firm’s transactions practices and represents clients worldwide in matters relating to real estate, real estate finance and private equity, including acquisitions and sales, partnerships and joint ventures, construction and development projects, hospitality and gaming, public and private offerings of real estate-related securities and workouts, recapitalizations, and restructurings.
Ms. Sokoloff’s practice includes real estate private equity fund formations, joint ventures and investments in Asia, the Americas and Europe. She represented Anbang Insurance Group in its acquisitions of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York and Strategic Hotels & Resorts from affiliates of the Blackstone Group, Sungate Properties in its acquisition of interests in the General Motors Building and other New York properties, and sovereign wealth funds in acquisitions of U.S. and European real estate assets and developments. She also represented Asia Pacific Land, K.K. in connection with the sale of the Tiffany Building in the Ginza district of Tokyo.
Ms. Sokoloff represents REITs and other public and private real estate and infrastructure companies in mergers and acquisitions, as well as in financings and joint venture arrangements globally. Representative clients include S.L. Green Realty, Boston Properties, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and Emeritus Corporation.
Ms. Sokoloff has practiced at Skadden since 1990 and was resident in New York, London, San Francisco and Los Angeles before relocating to Asia in 2008, where she served as co-head of Skadden’s Asia Pacific practice, head of the Real Estate and Investment Finance Group and leader of the firm’s Tokyo office. She returned to New York in 2011.
Education:
- J.D., UCLA School of Law, 1990 (Editor, UCLA Law Review)
- A.B., Dartmouth College, 1987
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