Commercial Real Estate and Leasing

ABV represents clients in a wide range of commercial real estate matters, including the structuring, acquisition, sale, financing (and refinancing) of projects, leasing and ground leasing.

The firm advises clients in connection with cooperative and condominium issues and concerning real estate aspects of corporate transactions.

The firm has represented clients in disputed matters involving real estate, including litigation involving joint ventures, commercial leases, commercial mortgage backed securities (“CMBS”), residential mortgage backed securities (“RMBS”), chapter 11 cases under the Bankruptcy Code, foreclosure actions, out-of-court workouts, and other complex matters.

The firm counts among its core real estate focused clients the nation’s largest owner of retail laundromats, a national brewery and restaurant chain, New York City based real estate developers, special servicers of securitized commercial mortgages, secured and unsecured lenders, individual creditors, landlords and investors in distressed real estate assets and directors and officers of distressed entities, as well as a number of the firm’s long-term clients in connection with their real estate needs.