Law firm renews at GM Building. (Weil, Gotshal and Manges; General Motors building)

In the largest private sector transaction consummated to date in 1996, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, a prominent New York law firm, renewed its lease for 350,000 square feet of office space, occupying approximately 11 floors in the General Motors building located at 767 Fifth Avenue. The new, 21-year lease term will commence in 1998, and includes expansion options.

Howard Grufferman, senior managing director and co-manager of Julien J. Studley, Inc.'s Downtown New York office, and Maurice Solomon, vice chairman and manager of Studley's Midtown New York office,…