Peter Koffler is a partner in the firm's New York Office and is Leader of the New York Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental Practice Group.
Peter has a broad-based transactional real estate practice, and works on complex, often high-profile matters in New York City and nationally. With over 30 years of experience, Peter focuses his practice on all areas of commercial real estate, including acquisitions, sales, recapitalizations, leasing, sale/leasebacks, construction/development, air rights transfers, and financing. Asset classes typically include commercial/office, multifamily, retail, hospitality, self-storage, and mixed use.
Peter also has extensive experience, over several business cycles, in distressed market transactions, including loan restructures and workouts, discounted payoff transactions, joint venture modifications, recapitalizations, and deed-in-lieu transactions.
His clients include domestic and foreign commercial developers, owners and operators, as well as several commercial users with significant real estate holdings, including insurance companies, luxury brands, healthcare providers, mining companies, and pension funds.
Peter also works extensively with the structuring and negotiating complex multi-tier joint ventures, representing the developer/operator partners, capital partners and/or preferred equity holders.