Addressing all these functions, Sharf believes that Gibson Dunn’s real estate department has the deepest well of legal expertise in commercial real estate. “They’re a form of infrastructure that is inherently planted in real estate, because there is a facility, a physical location, which is tied into energy. “Real estate M&A has really heated up over the last couple of years with take-private transactions — which also land between real estate, finance and corporate M&A — and the lending practice has grown substantially. We have very rarely lost real estate lawyers to other firms, whether at the associate level or otherwise.” Both Sharf’s and Feuerstein’s intense fulfillment from digging deep into legal matters, alongside their collaborative natures, are a driving force in what they believe will keep Gibson Dunn’s real estate group in high demand as real estate continues to evolve in breadth and complexity.