Mike’s real estate practice focuses on complex commercial transactions across the retail, industrial, and office asset classes, with particular emphasis on acquisitions, ground and building leasing, build-to-suit development and portfolio-scale programs for major institutional clients.

Mike represents owners and tenants in big-box retail, industrial, office, and shopping center transactions throughout the United States, including acquisitions, dispositions, ground leases, build-to-suit arrangements, and complex multisite leasing programs. HIs industrial practice includes ecommerce, fulfillment, and distribution centers. He negotiates complex purchase and sale agreements, development agreements, and declarations of easements, covenants, and restriction agreements governing the operation of shopping centers and development projects nationally.

His work encompasses all aspects of real estate due diligence, including title, survey, and environmental review, as well as zoning and land use approvals. He has successfully negotiated leases for millions of square feet of build-to-suit and triple-net industrial, office, and retail space throughout the country on behalf of Fortune 500 tenants and institutional clients, including portfolio transactions involving dozens of simultaneous lease negotiations executed under compressed timelines. Mike also manages litigation issues and dispute avoidance strategies, including restrictive covenant, lease compliance, and use-restriction matters, on behalf of institutional real estate clients.

Mike currently serves as the Co-Coordinator of the New York Office’s Real Estate Practice. He previously served as the Office Managing Partner of the Firm’s New York office and then as an elected At-Large Member of the Firm’s Executive Committee.

In addition, Mike represents petroleum companies in connection with complex multisite acquisitions and sales, leasing and financing of their real estate assets, including refiners, wholesalers and distributors of well-known branded retail gas products, as well as the landlords and tenants of retail motor fuel facilities. He also represents petroleum company clients as franchisors in their distributor and franchise relationships with franchisees of branded retail motor fuel service stations.

As a member of the Hospitality Group, Mike handles restaurant leasing and leasing advisory services and strategy for high-end restaurants nationally.