Commercial Leasing

Our real estate group represents a number of major landlords of properties in the New York metropolitan area, as well as numerous office and retail tenants. In addition to handling very large and sophisticated lease negotiations for owners and tenants, we have significant expertise in the following areas:

• Restaurant, catering and other hospitality industry leases
• Structuring, negotiating and auditing rent escalations, including real estate taxes, operating expenses and labor rates.
• Fair market value arbitration proceedings and lease-escalation disputes
• Negotiating leases with highly technical electrical, emergency power and telecommunications requirements
• Landlord-tenant disputes and litigation
• Securing the performance of landlord and tenant obligations in bankruptcy and other workout situations
• Parking garage leases and operating agreements
• Leases of telecommunication properties, including web hosting and co-location facilities, fiber optic licenses and meet-me rooms.

Representative clients include:

• Castle Harlan Inc.
• Cerberus Partners LP
• CIBC World Markets Corp.
• The CIT Group/Tyco Capital
• Citigroup
• FILA Sportswear
• Georgetown Companies
• Glenview Capital LLC
• Jonathan Rose & Company
• Jones America Media
• Lefrak Organization
• Maverick Capital LLC
• MetroNexus LP
• New York & Company
• Open Society Institute
• Reckson Associates Realty Corp.
• The Related Companies
• Rockefeller Center
• Taconic Investment Partners
• Tishman Speyer Properties LP
• YWCA of the City of New York