Perfil
Jordan S. Lewis represents clients with respect to the acquisition, development, financing, leasing and disposition of commercial properties throughout the United States. His practice includes the representation of lenders and borrowers in connection with various types of secured financings and credit facilities, as well as loan workouts, the purchase and sale of nonperforming loans and asset management of distressed debt.
Jordan also represents developers/sponsors, investors, and their partners in the formation and negotiation of joint ventures and partnerships.
Jordan has significant experience representing sellers, purchasers and lenders with respect to the sale, acquisition and financing of economic development projects throughout the State of Georgia that are subject to tax-exempt bond financing structures.
Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Jordan was in-house counsel for a Manhattan-based real estate investment company listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
Concentrations
- Real estate finance
- Real estate development
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Partnerships and joint ventures
- Leasing
Capacidades
Experiencia
- Represented borrower on closing and administration of $100m and $150mm warehouse facilities.
- Represented borrower on $97mm senior and $24mm mezzanine loans for acquisition of an office complex.
- Represented borrower on $72mm refinancing of data center asset.
- Represented borrower on several construction loans for the development of self-storage facilities.
- Represented lender on purchase and restructuring of a $43mm distressed loan.
- Represented lender on closing and multiple restructurings of a $71mm hotel construction loan.
- Represented lender on closing of a $45mm office acquisition loan.
- Represented lender on closing of a $20mm hotel acquisition loan.
- Represented lender on closing of a $30mm construction loan for development of a mixed-use project.
- Represented sponsor on negotiation of a programmatic joint venture with a subsidiary of a hedge fund.
- Represented sponsor on negotiation of several joint ventures with a subsidiary of a hedge fund for the acquisition of industrial and shopping center assets in the United Kingdom.
- Represented limited partner on negotiation of a membership interest purchase agreement for the buyout of the general partner’s joint venture interest.
- Represented limited partner on negotiation of several joint ventures with developers of self-storage facilities.
- Represented publicly-traded company on $23mm acquisition of a manufacturing and distribution facility.
- Represented purchaser on $28mm acquisition of a warehouse and distribution facility subject to a tax-exempt bond financing structure.
- Represented purchaser on acquisition of $24mm and $27mm multifamily assets.
- Represented seller on sale of $60mm multifamily asset subject to a tax-exempt bond financing structure.
- Represented seller on asset management and sale of distressed shopping center.
- Represented a publicly-traded big-box tenant on negotiation of several shopping center leases.
- Represented tenant on negotiation of office lease in landmark Manhattan building with a publicly-traded REIT.
- Associate General Counsel and Associate Vice President of Legal Affairs, GFI Capital Resources Group, Inc., 2013-2016
- Assistant Town Attorney, Town of Oyster Bay, Office of the Town Attorney, 2011-2013
Reconocimientos y Liderazgo
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, "Ones to Watch," Real Estate Law, 2021-2025
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2023
- Team Member, Chambers USA Award for Excellence, Real Estate, 2018 and 2022
- Lead Attorney, U.S.A. Private Equity Deal of the Year (Lower Middle Market), Global M&A Network, M&A Atlas Awards, 2023
Credenciales
- B.A., Emory University
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J.D., cum laude, Brooklyn Law School
- Articles Editor, Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law
- Georgia
- Nueva York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Italiano, Conversacional