Mr. Friedenberg is a Partner at Sherin and Lodgen LLP practicing in our Real Estate Department and a member of the firm's Management Committee. He maintains a broad transactional real estate practice involving acquisition, development, permitting, financing, leasing, and disposition, for clients ranging from developers and lenders to educational institutions, public agencies, and operating companies. Mr. Friedenberg has extensive experience in the acquisition, development, leasing, and operation of office, research and development, and commercial properties. He assists clients in site identification, contract negotiation, transaction and ownership structuring, permitting, construction and takeout financing (as well as alternative types of financing), and title matters. He has served as real estate counsel for a number of years to a Fortune 50 company in connection with its national real estate facilities program. He has significant experience in the formation and management of acquisition teams involving professionals from a multitude of disciplines.

Mr. Friedenberg has represented lenders such as life insurance companies, national banks and mezzanine lenders in a wide range of financial transactions. These projects have included office, commercial, residential, research and development, and educational facilities. In addition, he has significant experience in restructuring troubled real estate transactions, as well as in bankruptcy and foreclosure matters.

Mr. Friedenberg is a frequent contributor to continuing legal education programs on a variety of real estate-related topics. He is a contributing author to numerous Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education publications, including Drafting Commercial Real Estate Documents in Massachusetts, Lease Drafting in Massachusetts, Commercial Real Estate Forms, and Crocker’s Notes on Common Forms. He received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 1980, where he was Managing Editor of The Cornell International Law Journal, and received his B.A. degree with honors from the University of Rochester in 1977.