About Ronald G. Weitz
Practice Areas
- Tax
- Real Estate
- International Law
Education
- Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1980J.D.
- Honors: cum laude
- Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, 1980M.B.A.
- State University of New York, 1976B.A.
- Honors: summa cum laude
Representative Cases
- Babcock & Brown Direct Investment Fund forms $1 billion global fund (2009)
- Bay Harbour Management acquires Aladdin Gaming for $510 million
- Black Creek forms Mexico Retail Properties Venture II, LP (2009)
- Black Creek forms Mexico Retail Properties Venture III, LP (2009)
- CalEast acquires $800 million, 90-property air cargo facility portfolio (2009)
- CalEast acquires CenterPoint Properties Trust for $3.4 billion (2009)
- Capmark Financial Group forms Capmark UK Realty Partners
- Cayuga Lake Fund co-invests in Meinl European Land Limited (2009)
- Cayuga Lake Fund co-invests in the $8.8 billion management buyout of Station Casinos, Inc. (2009)
- Cayuga Lake Fund co-invests in the development of Brazilian office buildings (2009)
- CB Richard Ellis forms CB Richard Ellis Strategic Partners U.K. Fund II and Fund III
- Center America Property Trust sells 92 community and neighborhood shopping centers in the U.S. (2009)
- DaimlerChrysler AG forms joint venture with Metaldyne Corp.
- DDR establishes $200 million Controlled Equity Program (2009)
- DDR issues common shares in Controlled Equity Program (2009)
- Dividend Capital Trust invests in the owner of a Class A downtown Pittsburgh office building (2009)
- Dune Real Estate Fund acquires Southern California industrial portfolio (2009)
- Edison Mission Energy sells $3.9 billion international power generation portfolio to consortium
- Edison Mission Energy sells Fiddlers Ferry and Ferrybridge coal-fired power stations for $2.1 billion
- Edison Mission Energy sells interest in Contact Energy to Origin Energy for $1 billion
- FirstEnergy sells Avon Energy Partners Holdings, the Midlands Electricity holding company, to Aquila for $1.96 billion
- Five Star Realty acquires On the Avenue Hotel (2009)
- Great Lakes REIT is sold to affiliate of Transwestern Investment Company
- Highcross Group forms Highcross Regional U.K. Partners III and Highcross Regional U.K. Partners International III, L.P. (2009)
- Highcross Group forms U.K. property fund to invest in regional markets throughout the U.K.
- IL&FS forms fund and obtains credit facility to finance Indian real estate investments (2009)
- Jefferies acts as placement agent in public offering of Common Stock by Gladstone Commercial Corporation (2009)
- LaSalle forms $205 million fund with TRS to invest in property in North America
- LaSalle forms £250 million private equity real estate fund
- LaSalle forms Income & Growth Fund V (2009)
- LaSalle forms LaSalle Income and Growth IV and V
- LaSalle forms LaSalle Investment Company II
- LaSalle forms LaSalle Mexico Fund I, L.P. (2009)
- Meadowlands Xanadu coordinates and negotiates leases for 4.8 million square feet of entertainment/retail space (2009)
- Morgan Stanley acquires 49% interest in Crescent Resources, a subsidiary of Duke Energy Corporation
- Morgan Stanley acquires and receives financing for three portfolios of nonperforming loans
- Morgan Stanley acquires nine full-service Adam's Mark hotels through joint venture
- Morgan Stanley forms consortium to purchase German NPLs
- Morgan Stanley forms joint venture to purchase and develop 412 acres of Texas raw land
- Morgan Stanley forms joint venture with Lennar to acquire approximately 11,000 homesites, and obtains related financing for the acquisition (2009)
- Morgan Stanley forms U.K. limited partnership to acquire London properties
- Morgan Stanley International Real Estate Funds acquires Canary Wharf Group (2009)
- Morgan Stanley International Real Estate Funds form joint venture with Pirelli
- Morgan Stanley participates in equity fund-raising for co-investment in shopping center development business
- Morgan Stanley participates in joint venture for the development of the North Bridge mixed-use district in Chicago
- Morgan Stanley provides equity bridge in respect to Lumiere Holdings LP
- Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds acquire NPL from Huarong (2009)
- MSREF invests in Ask Investments
- Orion Capital Managers forms €1.28 billion pan-European real estate opportunity fund
- Orion Capital Managers forms Orion European Real Estate Fund II
- Pepsi Bottling Group invests in O.N.E. World Enterprises
- Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado invests in Asian property fund
- Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado invests in French property fund
- Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado invests in pan-European property funds
- Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado invests in U.S. property funds
- Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado participates in co-investment partnership to purchase Savoy Hotel Group
- Resolution forms Resolution Real Estate Fund III, L.P.
- RLJ Development forms RLJ Lodging Fund II, L.P.
- RLJ Development forms RLJ Real Estate Fund III
- Rockpoint forms $1 billion real estate fund
- Rockpoint forms $1.7 billion global real estate fund (2005)
- Rockpoint forms $100 million Rockpoint Real Estate Special Fund
- Rockpoint forms $2.5 billion real estate investment fund
- Seneca Lake Fund co-invests in purchase of mezzanine loans secured by six Class-A office properties (2009)
- Teachers Retirement System of Louisiana invests in global property fund
- Teachers Retirement System of Louisiana invests in U.S. mezzanine property fund
- Teachers Retirement System of Louisiana invests in various property funds
- Townsend Group forms Cayuga Lake Fund, a $750 million real estate co-investment fund (2009)
- Townsend Group forms Seneca Lake Fund, a $250 million real estate co-investment fund (2009)
- TriGate Capital acquires interest in a sponsor of opportunistic real estate private equity funds
- TSG Consumer Partners acquires 50% of Meguiar's
- TSG Consumer Partners sells PureOlogy Research to L'Oréal
- Wells Fargo Energy Capital finances BMC acquisition
- Westbrook RE Funds and European Property Partners acquire and sell controlling interest in SOCIM (2009)
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