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Stephen Friedman

 
Attorney - Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
 
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Company Name : Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
 
Company Website : www.bipc.com
 
Company Address : One Chase Manhattan Plz.
35th Fl., New York, NY,
United States,
 
Stephen Friedman Profile :
Attorney - Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
 
Stephen Friedman Biography :

Stephen S. Friedman focuses his practice in financing, capital markets, acquisitions and sales, development, leasing and construction. He has closed some of the largest and most sophisticated financing and workout transactions in the real estate industry.

Affiliations

New York State Bar Association

Education

J.D., 1988

Columbia University

B.T.L., with honors, 1984

Ner Israel Rabbinical College, Talmudic law

B.A., magna cum laude, 1983

Towson State University, finance

Services/Industries

Real Estate

Commercial Leasing

Admissions

New York

Steven's clients include international and domestic investors, syndicators, sponsors, real estate funds, owners, tenants, residential and commercial developers, construction and permanent lenders. Stephen has represented these clients in a range of real estate matters, including restructuring, workouts and refinancings; preparation and negotiation of loan documents; leasing; real estate syndications; preparation and negotiation of partnership and management agreements; foreclosures and evictions.

Stephen brings a sophisticated corporate background to real estate transactions. He began his legal career doing '33 Act and '34 Act work, public offerings, private placements, joint ventures, stock and asset purchases, and mergers and consolidations.

Representative Real Estate Transactions

Represented investment banks and leading real estate investment trust in lending programs, including such transactions as:

$70+ million acquisition financing of multiple buildings in a major urban center for condominium conversion.

$100 million acquisition and development financing of mixed use (hotel, retail, commercial) property in Florida.

$75 million acquisition financing of "Fortune 100" company's office park in North Carolina.

$85 million acquisition financing of Missouri industrial park and brownfield, requiring restructuring of existing municipal financing.

$90 million Hawaii hotel debt and equity restructuring, and subsequent acquisition and conversion to condominiums.

$35 million acquisition of portfolio of unsold residential cooperative and condominium units primarily located in New York City.

$45 million acquisition financing of New York City office building.

$400 million restructure of corporate credit facility involving mortgages and disposition of real assets in various U.S. jurisdictions.

Represented investors and developers (including major New York developers) in:

Acquisitions of multiple net lease portfolios ranging from $10-30 million.

Acquisitions and dispositions of shopping centers outside major urban areas, with deal sizes ranging from $20-60 million.

IRC Section 1031 tax deferred (both forward and reverse) exchange transactions.

Acquisitions and repositionings of many commercial buildings, having an aggregate value of $100+ million.

Multiple assemblages of New York City contiguous properties and air rights parcels and acquisitions of other development rights, such transactions having an aggregate value in excess of $300 million.

Acquisition and sales of various NY commercial and multi-family residential, in the aggregate of approximately $100+ million.

Represented principals in connection with the creation and licensing of a national mortgage bank.

Represented many commercial real estate owners, as well as anchor tenants in their respective leasing programs.

Represented a prominent New York real estate family in connection with a complete restructuring and reorganization of the family's 60+ Manhattan properties.

He is also the rabbi of Congregation Ramath Orah on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. During the 10 years that he has been rabbi of the congregation, Stephen has helped transform Congregation Ramath Orah into one of the most vibrant and energetic institutions in Manhattan. It has attracted people from various backgrounds and has become a center of social and religious education and programming.

Stephen is fluent in Yiddish and Hebrew, and to a lesser extent, Hungarian.

 
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David Abrams

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Elliot Blumenthal

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Stuart Boyarsky

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Jason D'Amico

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Kristi Davidson

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