1995
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

1997
Leo Burnett building
Chicago, Ilinois; SOF IV

1995
The Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, California; Aoki

1998
Chelsea Piers, New York, New York; iStar Financial

2002
American / National Golf Ruffled Feathers Lemont, Illinois; SOF VI and Tee Coinvest

2005
Baccarat Crystal; Hotel I, SOF VII and SDL Coinvest

2008
Starwood Energy / Infrastructure Fund I ("SEIF")

2010
The Centurion, New York, New York; SOF VIII

History

1991
> Barry Sternlicht launches Starwood Capital Group (SCG).
1992
> Starwood Opportunity Funds I and IA (“SOF I and IA”) close with $52M of commitments.
1993
> SCG participates in the IPO of Equity Residential Properties (NYSE: EQR) via a contribution of its multifamily portfolio in SOF I/IA in exchange for operating partnership units convertible to shares of EQR stock.
> Starwood Opportunity Fund II (“SOF II”) closes with $102M of commitments.
1994
> SCG acquires a majority of the distressed senior debt of Hotel Investors Trust and negotiates a complete restructuring and repositioning. The firm embarked upon a series of transactions that would lead to the creation of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT).
> Starwood Mezzanine Investors (“SOF III”) closes with $220M of commitments.
1995
> SCG creates Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. and Mr. Sternlicht becomes Chairman and CEO.
> SCG purchases Westin Hotels & Resorts from the Aoki Corporation in a partnership with Goldman Sachs & Co. and Nomura Securities.
1997
> Starwood Opportunity Fund IV ("SOF IV") closes with approximately $830M of commitments.
1998
> SCG takes its mezzanine business public by creating Starwood Financial, Inc (NYSE: SFI), which would subsequently be renamed iStar Financial and become one of the largest publicly traded finance companies focused exclusively on commercial real estate.
> Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. acquires ITT Sheraton for $14B.
1999
> Starwood Opportunity Fund V (“SOF V”) closes with approximately $516M of commitments.
2000
> Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is added to the S&P Index.
2002
> Starwood Opportunity Fund VI (“SOF VI”) closes with $567M of commitments.
2003
> SCG, in a joint venture partnership with Goldman Sachs, takes private National Golf Properties, Inc (NYSE: TEE), and acquires its private sister operating company for approximately $1B.
2004
> Barry Sternlicht and Matthew Gilman create Starwood Real Estate Securities ("SRES"), a hedge fund adviser that sponsors open-ended, long-short hedge funds.
2005
> Mr. Sternlicht is voted “Best Lodging CEO 2005” by Institutional Investor magazine.
> Mr. Sternlicht returns to SCG full time as Chairman and CEO.
> Starwood Global Opportunity Fund VII (“SOF VII”) closes with $1.475B of commitments.
> Starwood Capital Hospitality Fund I (“Hotel I”) closes with approximately $900M of commitments.
> Starwood, through SOF VII, Hotel I and three Co Invest Funds (“the SDL Co-Invest funds”), completes the $3.2B acquisition of Groupe Taittinger and Société du Louvre.
> SRES launches Dirigo, L.L.C. (“Dirigo”), a long/short hedge fund that invests in a broad universe of global public real estate securities.
2008
> SCG forms Starwood Energy/Infrastructure Fund I (“SEIF”) with $433M of commitments.
2009
> Starwood Debt Fund II (“Debt II”) closes with $378M of commitments.
> SCG creates Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: STWD), a publicly traded real estate finance company that focuses on originating and investing in commercial mortgage loans and other commercial real estate-related debt investments. With a market capitalization of $950 million, STWD is the largest blind pool company ever created and traded on the NYSE.  
> SCG, in partnership with the FDIC and several leading private equity firms, acquires the construction loans and real estate owned (REO) assets formerly owned by Chicago-based Corus Bank for $2.77B ($4.5B face). 
2010
> Starwood Global Opportunity Fund VIII (“SOF VIII”) closes with $1.83B of commitments.
> Starwood Capital Global Hospitality Fund II (“Hotel II”) closes with $965M of commitments.
> Starwood Property Trust raises $454 million through a secondary offering on the NYSE in December.
> SCG opens its first South American office in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2011
> SCG closes its office in Tokyo, Japan.
> Starwood Property Trust raises $477 million through a secondary offering on the NYSE in May.
> SCG opens an office in Los Angeles, CA
2012
> Starwood Property Trust raises $457 million through a secondary offering on the NYSE in April.