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With some of the largest commercial real estate deals happening right here in our own back yard, its no surprise that New York is home to a bevy of law firms with real estate departments vying for a piece of that action. Leases, sales, land use and loans are all the beginning for many of these firms, whose New York offices can be the nerve center for a lot of their worldwide real estate practices. The Commercial Observer touched base with some of them to get an idea of how real estate fits in to the overall picture in terms of metrics. Though some werent included because they didnt respond in time, the numbers for those that responded indicate some firms survive on New York real estate alone while otherslarge and smalldevote a big percentage of their firm-wide workforce to the area.
REAL ESTATE LAWYERS, NEW YORK 45 29 14 16 6 LAW FIRM Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman LLP Bryan Cave Cozen O'Connor DLA Piper Edward A. Mermelstein & Associates Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Gibson Dunn Greenberg Traurig Holland & Knight Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman Kirkland & Ellis LLP Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LePatner & Associates Loeb & Loeb Morrison & Foerster Paul Hastings LAWYERS, FIRMWIDE 45 1064 575 4,200 22 REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT HEADS/PARTNERS Sherwin Belkin, Joseph Burden, Howard Wenig and Jeffrey Goldman James Buell, Andrew Auerbach Thomas Decker, Abby Wenzel, Ken Fisher Martin Polevoy, Jay Epstien Edward Mermelstein Jonathan Mechanic, Michael Barker, Meyer Last, Stephen Lefkowitz, Richard Leland, Brian Lichter, et al Fred Pillon, Alan Samson, Jesse Sharf Robert Ivanhoe, Stephen Rabinowitz Stuart Saft, Martin Miner Wallace Schwartz n/a Jay Neveloff and Michael Korotkin, real estate; Paul Selver and Michael Sillerman, land use Barry LePatner Raymond A. Sanseverino Marc Young, Mark Edelstein Philip Feder, Robert Wertheimer, Peter Olsen, Rick Kirkbride Equity Partners: Gary Rosenberg, Warren Estis, Luise Barrack, Michael Lefkowitz, Richard Sussman, Jeffrey Turkel, Blaine Schwadel Jeffrey Lenobel Lisa Brill, Malcolm Montgomery, John Opar and Chris Smith Harvey Uris, Neil Rock Leonard Boxer NEW YORK ADDRESS PHONE

270 Madison Avenue 1290 Avenue of the Americas 277 Park Avenue 1251 Avenue of the Americas 302 Fifth Avenue

212-867-4466 212-541-2000 212-883-4900 212-335-4500 212-239-4001

495

49

375 Park Avenue

212-859-6600

1,039 1,750 1,009 375 1505 325 N/a 317 1072 881

22 46 16 8 17 50 6 17 66 34

200 Park Avenue 200 Park Avenue 31 West 52nd Street 1633 Broadway 601 Lexington Avenue 1177 Avenue of the Americas 575 Lexington Avenue 345 Park Avenue 1290 Avenue of the Americas 75 East 55th Street

212-351-4000 212-801-9200 212-513-3200 212-506-1700 212-446-4800 212-715-9100 212-935-4400 212-407-4000 212-468-8000 212-318-6000

Rosenberg & Estis, P.C.

55

55

733 Third Avenue

212-867-6000

Schulte Roth & Zabel Shearman & Sterling Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Stroock & Stroock & Lavan

375 900 1345 299

41 26 37 37

919 Third Avenue 599 Lexington Avenue 919 Third Avenue 180 Maiden Lane

212-756-2000 212-848-4000 212-735-3000 212-806-5400

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