Sandeep Mathrani has served as WeWork’s Chief Executive Officer and as a member of WeWork’s board of directors since February 2020. He was elected Chairman of the Board for WeWork on March 29, 2022. Mr. Mathrani most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield Properties’ Retail Group and Vice-Chairman of Brookfield Properties. Prior to that, he served as Chief Executive Officer of GGP Inc. for eight years, during which the company was capitalized in November 2010, experienced eight years of growth, and in August 2018 was sold to Brookfield Property Partners. Prior to joining GGP in 2010, Mr. Mathrani was President of Retail for Vornado Realty Trust, where he oversaw the firm’s U.S. retail real estate division and operations in India comprised principally of office properties. During his tenure, he was responsible for stabilizing and growing the portfolio. Before that, he spent eight years as Executive Vice President at Forest City Ratner, where he was tasked with starting and growing a new platform of retail properties across the five boroughs of New York City. Mr. Mathrani currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. and Bowlero. He also serves on the Management Committee of WeWork Capital Advisors LL. Previously, Mr. Mathrani served as a member of the board of directors of Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. and was the 2019 Chair of NAREIT. Sandeep also served on the executive board and the board of trustees for the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). Mr. Mathrani earned a Bachelor of Engineering, a Master of Engineering, and a Master of Management Science from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Richard ("Rick") Chesley practices in the areas of corporate restructuring with an emphasis on bankruptcy transactions, both in the United States and internationally. In addition, he handles litigation matters throughout the country stemming from bankruptcy proceedings.

Rick served as Co-Chair of the US Restructuring Group and Global Co-Chair of the Restructuring practice group for a number of years; and was appointed as the Co-US Managing Partner of the firm in April 2020.

Jay Epstien represents local and national owners, developers and users in all aspects of real estate transactions involving urban office buildings, shopping centers and mixed-use projects.

He has been the lead lawyer on many of the largest downtown office leases in Washington, DC, representing both landlords and tenants, including numerous law firms that have sought his counsel. He has represented major corporations in corporate real estate facilities matters throughout the United States, involving major corporate relocations and disposition of significant existing facilities. Jay is also an active practitioner in the shopping center industry.

Jay is a fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, serving as President in 2018, and a member of the ICSC Law Conference Program Committee, where he served as chair of the 2010 ICSC Law Conference.

Shari Helft Lennon concentrates her practice in the area of commercial real estate law.

She represents individuals, REITs, real estate private equity funds and other institutional clients in a broad range of commercial real estate transactions involving acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, management and development of various property types throughout the country.

Shari's representation for clients, includes the negotiation of construction, mezzanine and general secured real estate financings, loan workouts and restructurings and the negotiation of large commercial office leases. She specializes in single asset and large portfolio acquisitions and dispositions of various types of asset classes for purchase prices reaching up to US$1 billion, including, in particular, senior housing projects, student housing projects, medical office and life science buildings, and storage facilities across the United States.

Linda J. Isaacson is Partner and Head of ESG & Impact at ACRE. She is responsible for leading the firm's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices and ensuring that ongoing investment decisions, operational actions, and overall business philosophy reflect its core principles and those of its investors.  

Isaacson also serves as Chair of ACRE's Venture and Impact Capital vertical. Working with the firm's Founding Partners to form and manage investment vehicles, Isaacson focuses on early-stage companies and technologies that create social impact and disruption related to the built environment, sustainable communities, climate tech, health tech, and others emerging priorities.

Isaacson is a globally recognized strategic thinker, accelerator of change, and developer of high-impact organizational cultures, with a deep understanding of the environmental, societal, and technological factors reshaping the built environment. Before ACRE, she was Senior Managing Director, Global Innovation + Technology for Ferguson Partners.

Ms. Isaacson serves as an Americas Executive Board Member and a Global Governing Trustee of the Urban Land Institute, a Board Member of Local Logic, Global Leadership Board, FuturePlace, and a board advisor and mentor to numerous organizations and founders. Ms. Isaacson is Co-Chair of The Urban Land Institute's Global Exchange Council, previously serving as Chair. She is a member of PREA's Innovation Affinity Group; WX, New York Women Executives in Real Estate; and Chief, a private network of the most influential senior women leaders in the United States.

A native of South Africa, Ms. Isaacson is a graduate of the University of Miami and holds a master's degree from Boston University. Isaacson is an active Venture & Impact Investor and an avid runner. She has a Certificate from The Wharton School Aresty Institute of Executive Education in Business Analytics and a Certificate from Stanford Center for Professional Development and Stanford Online, VCUnlocked, Silicon Valley.

Paul is based in the London office and has experience in all aspects of commercial real estate, with particular emphasis on investment and corporate occupier work. He advises a wide range of clients on their real estate transactions and strategy and often leads multi practice teams of lawyers on complex deals. Paul is heavily involved in cross border work in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pac.

Paul has a special interest in sustainability in the built environment and disruption in the real estate industry. He leads DLA Piper's Green Real Estate team, innovating and developing suites of documentation and best practice in this dynamic area, including the creation of a UK Green Lease and advising both investors and occupiers on their sustainability strategy.

Paul is the client relationship partner for Unicef UK.

Paul has been at the forefront of developing DLA Piper's work involving business from Israel. He acts for many clients based in Israel as they embark on diverse business opportunities around the world. Paul manages the relationship with several Israeli clients in relation to their global business and also assists clients from outside of Israel looking for partners or advisers in Israel.

Nina Kampler has 35 years of industry experience as a lawyer, broker, restructuring advisor and business development expert. She formed Kampler Advisory Group in 2012 to provide strategic advisory services to the retail real estate industry.

From 2010 through 2012, she was Senior Managing Director of CBRE’s Retail Services Group, managing the New York Tri-State retail brokerage platform and heading the Urban Retail Group in the Americas, integrating the high-street retail practice across the US with the practice groups in Europe.

Prior to CBRE, Ms. Kampler served as Executive Vice President for Hilco Real Estate from 2004 to 2010. She directed their strategic retail and corporate solutions group and led retail business development. Ms. Kampler collaborated with major national and international retailers and commercial companies to implement real estate portfolio restructuring strategies, and includes Starbucks, Tumi, and GEOX, amongst her clients.

Previous to that, she spent 16 years at Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, serving as their Vice President, Retail and Real Estate Counsel. In that capacity, she negotiated all store and corporate real estate transactions throughout the U.S. and Canada. She also held the position of acting General Counsel for Club Monaco.

Early in her career, Nina practiced law at Coudert Brothers and Richards & O’Neil, both in New York.

Ms. Kampler is a current member of the ICSC US Law Conference Committee, and former member of the Advisory Board of the Georgetown University School of Law Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute, as well as the Board of Governors (founding member) of the National Retail Tenants Association. She has also served as Associate Dean of the School of Retailing of the University of Shopping Centers at Wharton. She is a frequent panelist, lecturer and guest columnist for many organizations, including ICSC, ICSC Law Forum Europe, ICSC Canada, Shopping Center Roundtable, NYU Stern School of Business MBA program, Reuters Consumer and Retail Summit, New York State and City Bar Association and other industry conferences and publications.

Nina is a graduate of New York University School of Law and the University of Pennsylvania, where she received both a B.A., summa cum laude, and an M.A. in International Politics.

Philip has over 35 years’ experience in the real estate and fund management industries, operating at the highest levels of leadership across the Asia Pacific region. He has worked for global real estate private equity firms such as LaSalle and Blackstone, in a variety of capital raising and management roles.

In 2013 he was appointed CEO of SGX listed Cambridge Industrial Trust (now known as ESR REIT) and in November 2017 he successfully led Cromwell European REIT (a EUR1.3bn diversified SGX listed REIT) through the IPO process.

In 2018, Philip established Penmount Partners (Penmount), a real estate focused corporate advisory firm providing targeted capital markets solutions for clients operating the public and private real estate sectors.

He is the author of “Three Peaks Leadership – How to make it as a CEO (and Beyond)” an experiential guide to attaining and thriving in the top job, and how to exit gracefully.

Mentoring and advising senior leaders on the development of their strategic plan and facilitating its execution, is a mainstay of Philip’s advisory activities. He sits on several Advisory Boards including HOPE Housing, a “for purpose” venture dedicated to assisting essential services workers achieve their rightful place on the housing ladder.

As an active investor in early stage PropTech ventures, Philip brings a combination of industry experience and management expertise to the leadership team, participating in the establishment of the Governance protocols and disciplines that assist in ensuring an entity’s long-term success.

Philip is a commercial helicopter pilot and an active member of Disaster Relief Australia, through his long association with the Royal Australian Navy.

Jeremy Lustman helps lead the firm’s global Israel Country Group. Jeremy spends much of his time physically on the ground in Israel, where he has developed a strong international network of Israeli companies, investors, entrepreneurs, bankers, accountants and local lawyers. He currently coordinates and helps lead DLA Piper's development efforts and initiatives cultivating international business emanating from Israel, serves as a liaison for Israeli clients seeking legal guidance in non-Israeli jurisdictions where DLA Piper has a presence, and provides guidance to non-Israeli clients evaluating business relationships and strategic partners within Israel.

Jeremy directly represents and oversees a significant number of key Israeli relationships that have touched upon more than 35 different international jurisdictions and more than 40 DLA Piper global offices. These clients cover virtually all sectors of the Israeli economy, including leading venture capital and private equity funds, institutional real estate investors and multiple companies in the biotech, high tech (software, Internet and semiconductors), telecommunications, industrial, food/beverage, agro-tech, defense, homeland security and gaming sectors.

In addition, Jeremy maintains a focused US-component of his practice that operates at the intersection of corporate, real estate and hospitality law. He assists public and private companies, private equity funds and cash flow lenders in business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, senior and mezzanine debt financings, equity investments and joint ventures. In addition, Jeremy has significant experience in the hospitality industry, including transactions on hotels involving franchise and management portfolios (development and ongoing operations) as well as joint ventures and equity investments in hotel/resort projects. He also provides general corporate representation to a number of clients, among them real estate development companies.

Naomi Maryles is a Managing Director. She is responsible for facilitating new client generation through intelligence gathering and networking, managing ongoing client matters and projects, and generating new business opportunities for DLA Piper colleagues around the world.

Naomi began her career as an attorney at a number of NY-based law firms focusing on corporate and securities work before joining DLA Piper. She meets regularly with clients/prospective clients, plans and hosts events, assists attorneys with obtaining and refining proposals and attends conferences and events to support brand enhancement in the region. Naomi has also launched DLA Piper's Israel WIN series and Israel Women's Leadership series.

Naomi Maryles does not provide legal services.

Susheela Rivers is a real estate lawyer with over 28 years' experience of helping clients with complex, multi-faceted cross-border and domestic real estate transactions throughout Asia (including China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam) and the UK.

She advises on all aspects of structuring real estate investment and development portfolios including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and developments for stand-alone assets and portfolios across all asset classes.

Susheela helps clients with a wide range of real estate matters, focusing particularly on M&A transactions, financings, developments, leases, and fractionalising real estate including real estate tokenisation. She has in-depth knowledge of the hospitality and leisure spheres and a particular focus on real estate with operational aspects.

She advises international and regional property companies, real estate fund managers and investors, private equity funds, hotel groups, retailers, investment banks and major corporate occupiers on all aspects of real estate transactions, from structuring investments, developments, project and investment management, through to real estate operation and exit strategies.

Susheela regularly speaks on real estate topics at conferences. She is a Global Governing Trustee at Urban Land Institute (ULI), the oldest and largest network of cross-disciplinary real estate and land use experts in the world, and Vice-Chair of ULI Hong Kong.

She is also Global Co-Chair of the DLA Piper Leadership Alliance for Women (LAW), in which she supports gender balance at all levels by strengthening the influence, leadership and voice of women both within the firm and the wider community.

Susheela is an active supporter of Hong Kong’s community and a board member of the leading NGO Community Business, where she commits to advancing responsible and inclusive business practices in Asia. She is also an executive committee member of the British Chamber of Commerce HK.

Gabriel is the co-founder and the CEO of LeasePilot, a cloud-based software provider that helps commercial real estate companies draft, revise and abstract their leases faster.

Since founding LeasePilot in 2015, Gabriel has helped leading real estate companies like Brixmor, Healthpeak and STAG Industrial institutionalize their largely manual and paper-based leasing processes into fast, efficient and transparent digital workflows.

Prior to founding LeasePilot, Gabriel practiced law at firms such as Bingham McCutchen, Goulston & Storrs and Saul Ewing.

Albert brings 20 years of industry experience and is a member of the Firm’s Investment Committee. As Head of the European Investor Relations group, based in London, he is responsible for capital raising and client service of investors located in Europe and the Middle East, as well as leading the product development of European strategies.

Prior to joining Harrison Street, Albert was Head of Business Development at Barings Real Estate, where he held a similar role promoting their global real estate strategies. He has also worked in the real estate divisions of JP Morgan Asset Management, Henderson Global Investors (now Nuveen), Schroders and Deutsche Asset Management (now DWS).

Albert holds a Master of Mechanical Engineering and European Studies (MEng) from the University of Warwick, UK and the Investment Management Certificate. He is an active member of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE), and a committee member of the European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV).