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Anoush D. Sarkissian

Partner, Skadden

213-687-5935anoush.sarkissian@skadden.com

2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067

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Anoush Sarkissian represents clients in a range of complex real estate matters. Her practice includes portfolio and single-asset acquisitions, dispositions of various classes of real estate assets, joint ventures, financings, developments and leases.

Sarkissian’s clients include institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms, lenders, borrowers, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants and developers. She also has been involved in various alternative energy transactions involving wind and solar farms, and the development and financing of transmission facilities. In recognition of her work, Sarkissian has been featured as part of the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Leaders of Influence: Minority Attorneys and honored as one of GlobeSt.’s 2026 Rainmakers in CRE Debt, Equity & Finance, 2025 Women of Influence (Rising Star category) and 2024 Commercial Real Estate’s Aspiring Leaders. 

Lawdragon Honors

Honor Year Practice
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers 2026 Real Estate Transactions, REITs
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation 2026 Real Estate

Sarkissian’s representations include:

  • Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT) and its manager, The RMR Group, in the $4 billion mortgage and mezzanine financing from a syndicate of banks, including Citigroup Global Markets Inc., UBS AG, Stamford Branch and Brookfield Asset Management Inc., among others, to finance ILPT’s acquisition of Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation, which was followed by a $1.2 billion refinancing of a portfolio of 104 properties from a bank group led by Citigroup Inc. and UBS AG
  • Levantur, S.A. (Grupo Piñero) in the structuring and creation of a long-term strategic joint venture with Hyatt Hotels Corporation, which will be headquartered in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, manage Bahia Principe Hotels & Resorts-branded properties and own the Bahia Principe brand, comprising 22 resorts and approximately 12,000 hotel rooms
  • Healthpeak Properties, Inc. in numerous transactions, including its $168 million acquisition of a portfolio of medical office buildings
  • TerraForm Power, Inc. in connection with a nonrecourse $246 million private placement and $22 million letter of credit facility for a 218 MW wind farm in Illinois
  • Intel Corporation in the $150 million sale of its Home Gateway Platform Division to MaxLinear, Inc.
  • Bucherer AG in its acquisition of Tourneau, LLC

Sarkissian has also represented numerous other clients, including AustralianSuper, The RMR Group LLC, TPG Capital, Brookdale Senior Living Inc., Burlington Stores, Inc., Consulate Health Care, LLC, DE Shaw & Co, WeWork Companies LLC and Zayo Group Holdings, Inc., in various acquisitions, dispositions, financings, joint ventures, leases and restructurings.