Jeff Horwitz

Jeffrey A. Horwitz is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department where he co-heads our Private Equity Real Estate practice and runs our internationally recognized Lodging & Gaming Group. He also has served as co-head of Mergers & Acquisitions and as a member of our Executive Committee. Jeff is a general corporate and securities lawyer with broad-based experience in mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, and long-term joint ventures. He is regularly engaged to advise boards, management teams and investors on strategic matters, from litigation to personnel to transactions. As head of our Private Equity Real Estate group, he works with a team of 75 lawyers from across the firm advising on complex transactions and disputes relating to real estate. As head of our Lodging & Gaming Group, Jeff has handled virtually every type of matter, and has worked with virtually every major player, in these industries. His experience, both in and outside the U.S., extends to hotel and casino development and construction; portfolio and single-property acquisitions, sales and restructurings; financings; management; marketing; reservations systems; litigation counseling and strategic planning; and ancillary services. This breadth of work is key to executing complex and sophisticated transactions. He is regularly engaged in the largest transactions in the lodging space, having executed more than $8 billion in transactions in the past three years. As a senior member of our Entertainment Group, Jeff represents The Broadway League (the national trade association for Broadway theatre), the Tony Awards®, and various other joint venture events, such as Broadway on Broadway® and Broadway under the Stars®, as well as producers, including Broadway Global Ventures. In the media industry, Jeff has advised on the acquisition and sale of television, radio, newspaper and magazine properties, and the acquisition and sale of advertising, promotion and marketing agencies, and related joint ventures. He also advises rights holders, including our long-time clients The Leonard Bernstein Office and The Balanchine Trust. He leads our team representing TSG Entertainment in film-slate financing deals for 21st Century Fox. Jeff has been with the firm for his entire career and lives in Manhattan and Connecticut. University of Virginia Law School, J.D., 1984 Harvard University, B.A., 1981