Profilo
Howard S. Schochet focuses his practice on commercial real estate and has national experience in sales and acquisitions, development, securitized financings, mortgage and mezzanine financings, joint ventures, sale-leaseback transactions and loan participations.
Concentrations
- Real estate finance
- Real estate sales and acquisitions
- Joint ventures
- Mezzanine financings
- Loan participations
- Development
- Sales and acquisitions of mortgage loans
Competenze
Esperienze Professionali - Attività Accademiche
- Represented a family office in a joint venture for the development and financing of a five-star resort in northern California.
- Represented a joint venture in connection with the financing of a luxury resort.
- Represented a fund in connection with the acquisition of and financing of over $500,000,000 in single family rental properties across the southeastern United States.
- Represented a fund in connection with a $200,000,000 acquisition and financing of the fee interest in a ground leased property located in Santa Barbara, California.
- Represented an institutional lender in connection foreclosure and sale of a multifamily property located in Florida.
- Represented an institutional lender in connection with the origination of a first mortgage loan secured industrial property located in northern Florida.
- Represented an institutional lender in connection with condominium inventory loan for units located in New York, New York.
- Represented an institutional lender in connection with the origination of a mezzanine loan for the construction of a hotel located in Times Square, New York.
- Represented an institutional lender holding a mezzanine loan in connection with the restructuring of a debt stack for a property located in New York, New York.
- Represented a fund in connection with a joint venture for development of single-family rental properties located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Riconoscimenti e Premi
- Listed, Lawdragon, 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers, 2024-2025
- Team Member, Chambers USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2010, 2013, 2017-2018, and 2022
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, New York Metro Super Lawyers, 2012-2025
- Team Member, a U.S. News - Best Lawyers®, "Law Firm of the Year" in Real Estate Law, 2015
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2011-2013, 2015, 2022 and 2023
- Team Member, The Legal 500 United States, "Top Tier" Firm in Real Estate, 2013 and 2014
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, The Florida Bar Association
Formazione
Formazione
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Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza, with distinction, Hofstra University School of Law
- Member, Hofstra Labor Law Journal
- Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Real Property
- Member, Hofstra Labor Law Journal
- B.B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abilitazioni
- New York