Neal Weinstein

Neal has more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate transactions. He focuses on the acquisition, disposition, and financing of multifamily developments, office buildings, shopping centers, and industrial properties, with particular depth in New York metro and nationwide multifamily and office assets, and has served as lead counsel on more than $1 billion of real estate transactions over the past decade. 

His clients range from pension fund advisers, REITs, and family businesses to high-net-worth individuals and owner-operators. Neal also guides landlords and tenants through office, retail, and industrial leasing, handles real estate-related disputes and cooperative/condominium board matters, and advises companies and entrepreneurs across industries—including a leading cryptocurrency exchange, technology start-ups, cannabis companies, financial companies, restaurants, and retailers—on business contracts, day-to-day operations, and disputes. 

He frequently writes and lectures on the office-leasing market, subleases and assignments, real estate due diligence, and evolving landlord-tenant regulations.  

Neal joined Michael Best with the New York Team of Kane Kessler, P.C.

Solutions in action

Neil has represented clients in the following matters:  

• Representation of start-up and established service companies in their day-to-day operations. 
• Forming and structuring corporate, partnership and limited liability entities, contract and license drafting and employment matters. 
• Due diligence, purchases, sales and financing of multi-family and mixed-use   buildings and complexes in New York City and nationwide. 
• Due diligence, purchases, sales and financing of shopping centers, offices and industrial/warehouse projects. 
• Reverse and forward §1031 tax-deferred exchanges including the creation of tenant-in-common ownership entities and structures. 
• Office leasing, including the representation of a leading global tax and consulting firm in the negotiation of leases and amendments, subleasing and the day-to-day administration and management of more than 200 office leases nationwide. 
• Retail leasing including restaurants and bars, men and women’s fashion and cosmetic companies within shopping centers, individual buildings and stand-alone stores in New York and nationwide. 
• Co-work leasing and licensing. 
• Lease buy-outs, subleases, licenses and assignments. 
• Representation of building and apartment owners, condominium associations, cooperative boards, shareholders and unit owners. 
• Workouts and forbearance agreements. 
• Leasing and acquisition of production facilities, offices and retail dispensaries in connection with medicinal and recreational marijuana use. 
• New York City zoning review and analysis, including the transfer and reservation of development (air) rights, negotiation of construction and architectural (AIA) contracts, easements, access agreements, land use disputes and addressing New York City municipal violations, permitting issues and rent regulation, landmarks and Department of Building concerns.