Leading New York-based real estate transactions and development attorneys providing support during all phases of commercial real estate ownership.

Cassin regularly represents real estate developers, owners, operators and investors of all sizes and configurations, from family offices to institutions. We help these clients evaluate, capitalize and structure their transactions and investment relationships throughout the lifecycle of all their assets, all around the country, in both up and down markets. Our expertise spans from real estate acquisitions and dispositions, entity acquisition and real estate restructuring transactions—including purchases and sales, real estate joint ventures, preferred equity investments, convertible debt investments, TICs, condominiums and other forms of co-ventures and real estate capital formation vehicles—to the assemblage, entitlement, development, positioning, workout and stabilization of all types of projects.

Our clients, who often raise capital via deal-level joint ventures, programmatic joint ventures and fund platforms of various configurations—including innovative means like crowdfunding—particularly appreciate our expertise in structuring equity formation vehicles. They also value our perspective on the market at large: At Cassin, we work with virtually all of the big institutional lenders in commercial real estate finance. These deeply entrenched relationships, combined with the sheer quantity of deals we do, give us uncommon insight into trends in the market, which we then pass along to our clients and use to their advantage.

Whether confronting a construction loan, bridge or mezzanine financing for a complex asset repositioning, a large permanent loan destined for a lender’s balance sheet or the CMBS market, or simply the challenges of a down market, our fundamental approach is the same. We leverage our understanding of lenders’ tendencies, limits, processes and protocols to complete transactions efficiently and effectively, anticipating and solving potential issues before they become real issues, to attain a result that meets all of our client’s needs.

Whether we’re advising sponsors or investors, our clients see us as a key partner because we act like one.

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