In one of the year’s largest real estate deals, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is on course to be the anchor tenant at Brookfield Property Partners’ One Manhattan West, the first of two commercial towers being proposed in the Hudson Yards district.

Beginning as a letter of intent in October, Skadden and Brookfield recently finalized a 20-year lease for 550,000 square feet after complex negotiations.