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Anthony J. Colletta joined Sullivan & Cromwell in 1988 and became a partner of the Firm in 1997. He specializes in commercial real estate matters, private equity fund formation and transactional work, financings, joint ventures and general corporate matters. He has worked on the formation and fund-raising of numerous private equity funds focused on real estate and real estate-related assets, and has represented these funds in their investing and financing activities. Mr. Colletta also has extensive transactional experience involving the purchase, development and disposition of real estate assets and companies throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Asia and Latin America, the structuring of senior and mezzanine financings on both a secured and unsecured basis and the formation of joint ventures. Among other clients, Mr. Colletta has represented the Goldman Sachs-sponsored Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds since their inception in 1991, including in their fund-raising activities, acquisitions of distressed loans and real estate assets around the world and acquisitions of various public and private real estate companies, and in well over US$ 40 billion of mortgage and mezzanine financings. He also has represented Aetos Capital, Broadreach Capital Partners, Safeguard Storage Properties, Marathon Real Estate Fund and American Continental Properties on a variety of matters. Over the last 24 months, Mr. Colletta handled a wide variety of transactions, including: several completed or attempted acquisitions of public and private real estate companies in the hotel sector with a total value of more than US$ 12.5 billion; well over US$ 8 billion of senior, mezzanine and preferred equity financings, including structured financings totaling more than US$ 1.2 billion for a New York parking lot company and a national golf course company, over US$ 1 billion of refinancings for three hotels in Manhattan, and construction loans for several projects in New York, Hawaii and elsewhere; numerous asset acquisitions in the United States and the Caribbean, including the acquisition and financing of two portfolios comprising 165 hotels located throughout the United States as well as the acquisitions of the Argent Hotel in San Francisco and the Ritz Carlton Kapalua in Hawaii; the leveraged recapitalization of Safeguard Storage Properties; several billion dollars' worth of sales, including the sales of the Essex House in New York, the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel in California, two business campuses in California to Google, and minority stakes in two private South American companies; and the formation of and fundraising for several U.S. and international real estate funds that raised or are in the process of raising more than US$ 9.5 billion of equity. | 