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Sean K. Tierney

Sean
Tierney

Partner

CONTACT INFO

stierney@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+44 20 7071 4236

FAX:+1 310.552.7045

London

Telephone House, 2-4 Temple Avenue, London, EC4Y 0HB United Kingdom

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PRACTICE

Real Estate

BIOGRAPHY

Sean Tierney is a partner of the firm’s Real Estate Department. Sean represents private equity funds, institutional and non-institutional real estate investors, developers, operators, lenders and borrowers in negotiating and structuring real estate joint ventures, acquisitions, sales, developments and financings. Sean also has deep experience in representing hotel investors and operators in connection with the acquisition, financing, development, operation, and disposition of hospitality assets.

Sean has been recognized as a leading lawyer by:

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ in Real Estate, 2022 and 2023
  • Lawdragon: 500 X – The Next Generation, 2023

Representative matters include:

  • $835 million acquisition of The Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida, the largest hospitality transaction since the Covid-19 pandemic (Florida).
  • Acquisition, financing and re-opening of the Hilton Times Square (New York).
  • $1.1 billion acquisition of the Dropbox headquarters in San Francisco (California).
  • Negotiation of the $2.2 billion construction financing for the Fontainebleau Las Vegas (Nevada).
  • Acquisition, re-branding, and recapitalization of the Waldorf Astoria, Monarch Beach (California).
  • Acquisition, financings, and repositioning of the Jane Hotel in New York (New York).

Sean graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. While at Michigan, he worked in the Community and Economic Development Clinic, advising small businesses and non-profit organizations dedicated to the economic revitalization of Detroit, Michigan. Sean graduated magna cum laude from Loyola Marymount University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Philosophy and a minor in Business Administration.

Sean is also a proud member of the Board of Directors of Verbum Dei High School, a college prep school for low-income students located in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

EDUCATION

University of Michigan - Juris Doctor

Loyola Marymount University - Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

California Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Firm News - July 7, 2023 | Sixteen Gibson Dunn Attorneys named in the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation Guide
Press Releases - November 4, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Promotes 27 Lawyers to Partnership
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