Alexander Fischler

• Verizon in its $5 billion sale of Verizon Media to funds managed by Apollo Global Management. 

Acquisitions 

• U.S. private equity fund in connection with its $28.5 million acquisition of a mortgage loan encumbering an operating franchised hotel property located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, together with (which occurred simultaneously) its loan modification. 
• Nexstar Media Group, Inc. in its $160 million acquisition of BestReviews.

Restructurings

• J.C. Penney Company, Inc. and its affiliate entities in their Chapter 11 reorganization including the sale, to Simon Property Group and Brookfield Property Group, of the company’s operating business with roughly 650 owned and leased go-forward retail locations and 11 owned and leased distribution centers, as well as the formation of an OpCO/PropCo structure with 160 of the retail locations and 6 of the distribution centers being transferred to the Company’s first lien creditors and leased back to the emerged operating company.