Actual Property Lawyer Marc Lazar Joins Greenberg Traurig in Boston

BOSTON – International legislation agency Greenberg Traurig, LLP added business veteran Marc Lazar to its International Actual Property Observe as a shareholder in its Boston workplace. He joins from Goodwin Procter.

With greater than three a long time of authorized expertise, Lazar represents a variety of purchasers in actual property finance and funding transactions throughout asset lessons and the complete capital construction. He advises on three way partnership formations, non-public fairness investments, mortgage, mezzanine and most well-liked fairness financings, sale leasebacks, floor leases, and mortgage restructurings. He additionally handles area of interest issues associated to distressed loans, information heart platform enlargement, and building loans for high-value actual property tasks.

“Marc is an distinctive lawyer whose arrival helps the agency’s mission to offer purchasers with the perfect actual property authorized choices whereas additionally demonstrating our continued means to draw senior-level authorized expertise who share our imaginative and prescient and tradition,” Greenberg Traurig Chief Government Officer Brian L. Duffy mentioned.

Lazar’s purchasers vary from world hedge funds and actual property funding trusts to startups. His main representations have included a $685 million recapitalization of a portfolio of multifamily residential properties within the San Francisco Bay space, a improvement three way partnership for a $1.5 billion mixed-use venture in Atlanta, and a $520 million building mortgage for a 600,000-sq.-ft. Class A workplace tower in Bellevue, Washington.

“Boston is a crucial market, and Marc’s arrival allows us to additional strengthen our observe with senior-level authorized expertise. He brings an intensive institutional background and clientele to the agency at a time after we are strategically increasing our worldwide footprint and capabilities,” Actual Property Observe Co-Chair Michael J. Baum mentioned. “Many people have recognized Marc professionally for years, and he is an ideal match for the agency’s collaborative tradition and dedication to excellence in consumer service.”

Previous to Goodwin, Lazar was a associate at Ropes & Grey the place he co-led the agency’s actual property investments and transactions group.

“I used to be interested in Greenberg Traurig by its world platform and broad observe vary, which incorporates one of many world’s premier actual property authorized groups,” Lazar mentioned. “I stay up for working with my new colleagues to ship glorious consumer service and assist develop the workforce’s observe in Boston and past.”

“Marc’s high-end actual property observe is the newest strategic addition to Greenberg Traurig’s Boston workplace, which has seen vital progress in the previous couple of years,” Greenberg Traurig Boston Co-Managing Shareholders Terence P. McCourt and David J. Dykeman mentioned. “With greater than 85 attorneys in 15 observe areas, together with actual property, the Boston workplace offers a variety of authorized providers throughout quite a few industries and markets.”

Lazar earned his J.D. from Cornell Legislation College and a B.A. from Brandeis College. He’s admitted to observe legislation in Massachusetts and New York.

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