October 15, 2018
A Colorado federal judge declined Monday to reconsider almost $480,000 in costs awarded to defendants involved in a $22 billion leveraged buyout of the Archstone-Smith real estate investment trust, saying the investors who challenged the buyout should have raised certain arguments against the costs earlier.
September 05, 2017
The task that Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP faced in running the defense of some of the biggest names in real estate and finance in a dispute over the $22 billion leveraged buyout of the Archstone-Smith real estate investment trust could hardly have been more complex, but with a partner-led core team of attorneys that stayed on the case for 10 years, the firm secured a complete victory last month.
August 29, 2017
A Colorado federal court has given wins to Tishman Speyer, Lehman Brothers and a slew of other defendants involved in the $22 billion leveraged buyout of the Archstone-Smith real estate investment trust, ending a 10-year-long investor suit over one of the biggest real estate deals to come out of the mid-2000s property bubble.