A partner in the Paul, Weiss Real Estate Department, Salvatore Gogliormella focuses his practice on the acquisition, development, financing, leasing and disposition of real estate assets. He has significant experience in a wide range of industries and asset classes, including residential, retail, office, healthcare, hospitality, infrastructure, public transit and industrial.
Gogliormella has served as pro bono counsel for a number of nonprofit organizations, including the Urban Justice Center, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Settlement Housing Fund and Community Access. In 2018, Gogliormella was awarded the Cornerstone Award by Lawyers Alliance for New York for his extraordinary contributions through pro bono legal service. He sits on the boards of directors of New Yorkers for Children (a nonprofit serving youth in New York City’s child welfare system with a focus on children and young adults in and aged out of foster care) and an advisory board of VIP Community Services (a Bronx-based organization that provides a continuum of services to individuals struggling with substance abuse and behavioral health challenges) and has previously served on the boards of directors of the New York Civil Liberties Union and The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers | 2026 | Real Estate, REITs, esp. Healthcare |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers | 2025 | Real Estate, REITs, esp. Healthcare |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers | 2024 | Real Estate, REITs, esp. Healthcare |
Gogliormella’s representations include:
- Brookfield Infrastructure Partners in a $1.3 billion acquisition of assets from Cyxtera (a data center provider) in a chapter 11 case and related real estate from several third parties in separate transactions, modifications of dozens of leases, a consolidation of over 50 data centers into a single portfolio, and multiple financings of the portfolio
- A joint venture between Simon Property Group and Brookfield Asset Management in the acquisition from J. C. Penney Company, Inc. in a chapter 11 case, and the financing, of fee and leasehold interests in over 600 stores and a dozen distribution centers across the United States
- The Collegiate Churches of New York, the oldest operating church in the United States, in connection with its investment in a major commercial real estate development project in New York City
- Lightstone Group in connection with the acquisition of 27 multifamily properties located in the vicinity of Detroit, Michigan, a bridge mortgage loan financing involving a portfolio of 36 multifamily properties, and a permanent mortgage loan financing involving a portfolio of 15 multifamily properties
- Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in numerous transactions, including:
- the formerly planned development of a new AirTrain to connect LaGuardia Airport with nearby stations on a Long Island Rail Road line and the 7 line of the New York City Subway, as well as improvements to those stations and other public transit facilities
- the sale of airspace over the Vanderbilt Yard to a joint venture between Greenland USA and Brookfield Properties (formerly Forest City) for the development of a 22-acre mixed-use development near Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, and the construction of new railyards for Long Island Rail Road
- improvements by private developers to multiple subway stations, including a redevelopment of the Times Square station in conjunction with a private redevelopment of the iconic Times Square building (the site of the New Year’s Eve ball drop)
- Columbia University in its acquisition of a 2.5-acre assemblage in West Harlem, its acquisition of a multifamily property in Morningside Heights, and a potential ground lease development in Washington Heights
- Healthpeak Properties (formerly HCP, Inc.), an S&P 500 healthcare REIT, in a number of transactions, including:
- $1.125 billion sale of 64 senior housing communities to affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors L.P.
- formation of a joint venture for, and multiple financings of, a $1.2 billion portfolio of 14 continuing-care retirement communities and hundreds of related garden homes
- the sale of a portfolio of five independent living, assisted living and/or memory care facilities in Florida to Fortress Investment Group
- NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. in its:
- $4 billion acquisition of a Griffin-American-sponsored non-traded public REIT, which owned 289 healthcare facilities in 32 states and the United Kingdom
- $875 million acquisition of a portfolio of 35 independent living facilities in 12 states from Harvest Facility Holdings
- Fontainebleau Miami JV, LLC, the owner of the iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach Hotel, in its out-of-court restructuring of over $840 million in debt and other secured claims and in multiple subsequent refinancings of the hotel
- Las Vegas Sands Corp. in negotiations with several of the world’s leading hotel companies for the management and licensing of a strip of hotels in Macau
- Oaktree Capital Management in:
- the creation, as part of a consortium of investors, of International Market Centers, L.P., the largest network of premium home furnishings, gift and home decor showroom and exhibition space in the world
- the acquisition of loans secured by, the formation of joint ventures to own, and the acquisition and financing of, a portfolio of 26 industrial properties containing more than 11 million rentable square feet of space
- Jonathan Rose Companies in its arrangements with non-profit cultural groups to develop a green mixed-use project in the Brooklyn Cultural District