Mike Szczurek is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Department. He represents funds, developers, and everything from institutional to non-institutional to individual investors in acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financings, preferred equity investments, REIT formations and sales, work-outs and restructurings in a varied set of markets and for a comprehensive array of asset types, including raw land, student housing facilities, multi-family assets, single family rental assets, hotels and resorts, stadiums, office buildings, warehouses, and/or master planned and individual industrial projects.

Mike has been recognized as a leading lawyer by:

• Lawdragon‘s 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers in 2024
• Daily Journal’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2020
• Super Lawyers  Southern California’s “Rising Stars” since 2015
• Law360  as a Rising Star in Real Estate in 2018
• Euromoney Legal Media Group as a Rising Star in Real Estate in 2018

Representative clients include:

• MSD Partners
• Rockpoint Group
• Fontainebleau Development
• Koch Real Estate Investments
• Brookfield Property Partners
• BRAVO Strategies
• Fortress Investment Group
• The Scion Group
• ProspectHill Group

Selected representative matters include:

• A series of portfolio acquisitions, including asset, entity, REIT, and staged acquisitions, and financings for ~$6 billion of student housing facilities across the U.S. for a domestic operator and a variety of capital partners;
• The structuring and sale of ~$250 million of REIT interests in warehouse facilities for a prominent private equity fund;
• The sale of the former Hollywood Park site to entities affiliated with the Los Angeles Rams for an undisclosed sum and subsequent development work on SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California;
• The acquisition, financing, and structuring of joint ventures related to ~$5 billion in full service hotels and resorts located across the U.S. for a variety of owners and operators; and

• Obtaining ~$2.2 billion in mortgage and mezzanine construction debt for the ongoing construction of the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.

Additional relevant information about Mike:

• Mike received his Juris Doctor in 2009 from the University of Southern California, where he served on the Executive Board for the Hale Moot Court Honors Program and received a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude  from The College of New Jersey with a major in Business Administration in 2006.
• He is a member of the State Bar of California and has been admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
• Mike is a frequent guest lecturer on a variety of real estate-related topics at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law.
• He serves on the board of Stuart M. Ketchum Downtown YMCA.