PRACTICE

Retail and Office Leasing/Commercial Development

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Retail Leasing

Tenant:  I negotiate retail leases and related documents, including assignments, subleases, SNDA’s, termination agreements, and amendments for such national and regional tenants as:

• Panera Bread

• NAYA

• Planet Fitness

• Salt & Straw

• Edenbridge Health

• Au Bon Pain

Locations include regional malls, outlet malls, city street deals, office buildings, and strip centers as well as free-standing sites, and airport, university and hospital sites. I interface with the entire real estate and construction teams to coordinate all aspects of the lease and construction documents.

Developer

As Associate General Counsel at the former outlet developer Chelsea Property Group, Inc. (1998-2001), I drafted, negotiated, and supervised leases, leases amendments, renewals, and other related documents for retail space in more than 25 outlet centers throughout the United States. A sampling of the tenants that I negotiated leases with are:

• Coach

• Disney

• Kate Spade

• Kenneth Cole

• Liz Claiborne

• Polo

As in-house real estate counsel at Corporate Property Investors (1995-1998), the former regional shopping mall developer, I drafted and negotiated leases for high-end regional shopping malls throughout the United States.

Development Contracts

While at Chelsea, I drafted and negotiated contracts for selling existing shopping centers and vacant land and for selling and ground leasing outlying pad sites. I conducted title review and prepared closing documents. I also drafted easement and restrictive covenant agreements for many of Chelsea’s centers.

Operations

Also while at Chelsea, I handled a wide variety of day-to-day legal operating issues, such as access, CAM audit issues, and construction-related concerns and disputes. I also negotiated portfoliowide contracts for pay-phone service and trash-hauling.

Developer Leasing

Office:  As an associate at Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle in New York City for more than five years before moving in-house, I drafted and negotiated a full range of commercial office leases, subleases, and occupancy and brokerage agreements for major Manhattan office buildings, both midtown and downtown.

EDUCATION

• Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 1987

• Washington University, B.A. Sociology, cum laude, 1983

MEMBERSHIPS

• New York State Bar Association

• International Council of Shopping Centers