Sidley Austin LLP

Real Estate Weekly, April 18, 2007

Sidley Austin LLP announced that Farid Maluf, has joined the firm as a real estate partner in its New York office. Maluf has significant experience in capital markets real estate lending and finance, as well as acquisitions and sales. Maluf advises investment banks, private equity funds, pension fund advisors, and other domestic and foreign financial institutions in complex real estate and real estate finance transactions, such as fixed and floating rate financings, construction and renovation financings for large office buildings, residential facilities, luxury hotels, condominiums, shopping center developments and mixed-use projects, leasehold and sale-leaseback financing, and mezzanine loans.

Maluf holds a B.A. from Haverford College and earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was an editor of the New York University Law Review.