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Peter Mair

Partner, Skadden

213-687-5007peter.mair@skadden.com

2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067

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Peter Mair is co-head of Skadden’s Real Estate Group. His practice ranges from advising on traditional real estate work to counseling on private equity, corporate real estate and M&A transactions, as well as providing distressed and strategic advice to large portfolio companies.

Mair’s clients include private equity firms, public companies and large institutions, sovereign clients, pension funds, and private real estate development and investment compa­nies. He is experienced in a wide range of transactions, including acquisitions/dispositions, syndicated and other loan financings, joint ventures and co-investments, sale/leasebacks, leasing, recapitalizations, restructurings, fund formation and developments. Mr. Mair also advises acquirers, sellers, joint venture partners, borrowers, lenders, landlords, tenants, developers, sponsors and issuers across numerous industries. 

Lawdragon Honors

Honor Year Practice
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers 2026 Real Estate, Private Equity, Portfolio
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America 2026 Real Estate
The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers 2025 Real Estate, Private Equity, Portfolio
The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America 2025 Real Estate
The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers 2024 Real Estate, Private Equity, Portfolio
The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America 2024 Real Estate
The 2022 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America 2022 Real Estate

Mair’s representations include acting for:

  • AustralianSuper in its co-investment with Stonepeak Partners LP and in connection with their $2.7 billion acquisition of Lumen Technologies’ Latin American business
  • The RMR Group in numerous transactions, including:
    • the $1 billion financing secured by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated’s 1.1 million-square-foot headquarters in the Boston Seaport district
    • its $117 million acquisition and financing of a residential community in Sunrise, Florida
  • Industrial Logistics Properties Trust and its manager, The RMR Group Inc., in the:
    • up to $4 billion in bridge financing from Citigroup Global Markets Inc., UBS AG, Stamford Branch and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. to finance its acquisition of Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation
    • $1.2 billion refinancing of a portfolio of 104 properties from a bank group led by Citigroup Inc. and UBS AG Brookfield Corporation on numerous financing related transactions
  • Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure (f/k/a IPI Partners) and its portfolio company STACK Infrastructure in connection with an $18 billion senior secured debt package to help fund the construction and development of the Stargate data center mega campus in New Mexico
  • Cologix Canada, Inc. in connection with a C$195 million data center securitization
  • Intel Corporation in connection with:
    • its agreement with Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. to jointly invest approximately $30 billion to create a first-of-its-kind Semiconductor Co-Investment Program that introduces a new funding model to the semiconductor industry
  • Hong Kong Monetary Authority in connection with a series of acquisitions of Australian assets
  • Silverstein Properties in numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of:
    • the US Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles for $430 million, which involved the creation of a multiparty joint venture and mortgage and mezzanine financing
    • the Manhattan headquarters of American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. from the Walt Disney Company for approximately $1.15 billion, which involved the creation of a multilayered joint venture structure and approximately $900 million in mortgage and mezzanine financing
  • 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
  • Cosm, Inc., a media, entertainment and immersive technology company, in connection with the development of its first public venue in Hollywood Park, the retail district located adjacent to SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles
  • Formation Capital, LLC in the $870 million acquisition of substantially all of the U.S. business of Extendicare Inc., and the master leasing of all of the acquired real estate to third-party operators
  • AIR in its sale to Blackstone, for $408 million, of an 80% interest in a portfolio of multi-family properties
  • Genesis HealthCare, Inc. in:
    • its combination with Skilled Healthcare Group Inc.
    • the $2.4 billion sale-leaseback of its real estate assets with Welltower, Inc. (formerly Health Care REIT)
  • Holiday Acquisition Holdings in:
    • its $1 billion sale/leaseback of 52 independent living communities with Newcastle Investment Corp.
    • its $790 million sale/leaseback of 26 independent living communities with Ventas Inc.
  • Deutsche Bank AG in its $1.7 billion sale of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, a hotel and casino, to Blackstone Real Estate Partners VII, L.P.
  • Empire State Development Corp. and Moynihan Station Development Corp. in its redevelopment of the James A. Farley Post Office in midtown Manhattan