Daniel Lavian’s practice focuses on planning, structuring, and executing the acquisition, joint venture, financing, leasing and disposition of the full range of residential and commercial real estate assets, including distressed debt and equity transactions.

Daniel represents purchasers and sellers in commercial real estate debt and equity acquisitions and dispositions; borrowers and lenders in financing transactions (including acquisition, construction, bridge, mezzanine, preferred equity), owners and tenants in leasing transactions (retail, office, industrial); equity participants in joint ventures; and developers in ground-up and redevelopment projects involving office, retail, industrial, multifamily, hospitality and mixed-use projects. He has further experience representing borrowers, sponsors, and distressed investors in debt restructuring, recapitalizations, workouts, and real estate special opportunities.

Daniel further counsels clients from entrepreneurial startups to large privately held companies through each phase of growth as outside general counsel. He advises on issues of appropriate form of organization, business plans, stockholder, partnership and operating agreements, commercial transactions, joint venture agreements, tenancies in common, strategic partnerships and dispute resolution. Daniel helps clients develop forward looking strategies that meet their short and long-term goals.

Bar Admissions/Licensed Jurisdictions

• New York
• New Jersey
• Florida
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida

• Represented a New York developer in the construction financing of a ground-up development of a branded hotel in lower Manhattan in the amount of $90,000,000.
• Represented a New York developer in the acquisition, financing and joint venture of a commercial property slated for redevelopment as a hotel in lower Manhattan.
• Represented a New York real estate firm in the acquisition of a defaulted loan, as well as the contemporaneous recast of the loan in connection with a troubled retail property in New York, New York.
• Represented a New York investor/developer in a joint venture as well as the acquisition and financing of property and development rights for the construction of a lower Manhattan hotel.
• Represented a New York developer in the sale of a commercial building to a REIT in Brooklyn, New York in the amount of $165,000,000.
• Represented a regional investor in the acquisition and financing of shares of a business and real estate warehouse facilities in the Northeast.
• Represented a New York investor in a series of acquisitions, financings and leasebacks of warehouse facilities with multi-layer debt stacks throughout the United States.
• Represented a New York real estate joint venture in the negotiation of a net lease of a commercial building in SoHo, New York.
• Represented a private real estate holding company in the negotiation of a junior participation interest of a construction loan in Miami, Florida.
• Represented a New York real estate investor in the negotiation of bridge financing for a redevelopment project in Wynwood, Miami, Florida.
• Represented a private real estate holding company in the refinancing of a $42 million mortgage loan for a multi-tenant retail building located in New York, New York.
• Represented a private real estate holding company in the financing of a $22 million loan for the acquisition of three multifamily properties in Manhattan.
• Represented a private real estate holding company in the negotiation of a lease for ground floor and basement retail space in Manhattan with a national retailer.