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About
Provided by Robin Panovka
Practice Areas
Focuses principally on M&A and strategic transactions across the real estate, REIT, hospitality, gaming and retail sectors, and also advises on general cross-border M&A and large-scale projects such as the redevelopment of the World Trade Center in Manhattan.
Career
Partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Corporate Department and Co-Head of its Real Estate and REIT M&A groups. He co-chairs the firm’s top-ranked Real Estate and REIT M&A groups, which are consistently at the forefront of major transactions in the public REIT, real estate, hospitality and gaming industries, including many of the largest and most complex mergers, buyouts, takeovers and spinoffs over the last decade.
Publications
Co-author of "REITs: Mergers and Acquisitions," a leading treatise published by Law Journal Press, and has authored many articles and papers on related subjects.
Personal
He holds degrees from Cornell and Duke. He is also active on a number of educational and non-profit boards, including the boards of Duke Law School, Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF), and NYU’s Real Estate Institute; is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers; and serves on the Cornell University Council.
Chambers Review
USA
Robin Panovka is well known for his expertise in bulge-bracket M&A and REIT corporate law.
Robin Panovka cochairs the real estate and REIT M&A practices at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and is highly regarded for his work on corporate real estate transactions.