Todd R. Eisner joined the Firm in 2000 and is a partner in the Transactional Department. He is also a member of the Real Estate Practice Group, the Corporate Group, the Investment Funds Practice Group and the Hotels and Resorts Practice Group. Mr. Eisner has developed an expertise in many facets of real estate practice predominantly in the areas of sales, leasing, acquisitions, financings and development relating to all types of commercial transactions. Mr. Eisner frequently acts as lead counsel on transactions involving complicated joint ventures and mezzanine financing where he primarily represents institutional investors. Mr. Eisner also has extensive experience handling all aspects of hotel acquisitions and dispositions and has negotiated franchise and management agreements with most national hotel companies.
Mr. Eisner’s clientele primarily consists of large institutions such as investment management firms and investment banks but also includes both local and national developers and operators. Mr. Eisner has developed a reputation among his clients as a business lawyer who adapts his manner of handling each transaction to the economics and other business of objectives of the transaction.
Examples of transactions where Mr. Eisner recently acted as lead counsel include the following:
(i) the acquisition, financing and joint venture structuring of a hotel and retail project for approximately $110 million and the subsequent vertical subdivision, management restructuring and development of that project.
(ii) the acquisition, financing and joint venture structuring of a multi-state portfolio of hotels for a purchase price of approximately $30 million and the subsequent disposition thereof.
(iii) representing the mezzanine lender in the work out of the mezzanine and mortgage debt totaling approximately $300 million relating to a national portfolio of commercial properties.
(iv) representing the owner in the refinancing of an office project and adjacent parking facilities for approximately $125 million.
(v) representing the fee owner and ground lessee in the negotiation and restructuring of a ground lease and properties owned in fee for a major retail, office and public transportation project.
(vi) representing a national developer in the joint venture structuring with the investment office of a foreign government for the acquisition of a portfolio of properties for approximately $200 million.
Prior to joining Duval & Stachenfeld, Mr. Eisner was associated with a number of prominent New York City law firms. Mr. Eisner is admitted to practice law in New York.
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