Acquisitions and Sales

Our real estate group represents domestic and international buyers and sellers of commercial office buildings, shopping centers, hotels, residential complexes, industrial properties, health care facilities and undeveloped land. The group has handled the following types of transactions:

• Acquisitions and sales
• Joint ventures, limited liability companies and partnership transactions
• Transactions involving entities subject to bankruptcy proceedings
• Portfolio sales and acquisitions and other "bulk" dispositions of equity interests and debt
• Sales-Leasebacks
• Ground lease transactions
• Private placement of equity investments
• Acquisitions of property for REITs

Representative clients of our real estate group include:

• Antares
• Bayerische Hypo-und Vereinsbank
• Blackacre Capital Partners LP
• Castle Harlan Inc.
• Charter Oak Group 
• The CIT Group
• Columbia University
• Credit Suisse First Boston Inc. 
• Diawa Finance Corp.
• East Harlem Park Nursery
• The Georgetown Company
• Goodstein Management Inc.
• Jonathan Rose & Company
• The Kalimian Family
• Nomura Securities
• Paracor Finance Inc.
• The Patronis Group
• Reckson Associates Realty Corp.
• Rothschild Realty Inc.
• The Spence School
• Taconic Investment Partners LLC
• Tishman Speyer Properties LP
• UNITE
• The Uris Estate
• The Witkoff Group
• YMCA of New York City