Martin Polevoy is the head of the real estate practice group in New York. His practice includes all areas of real estate, including acquisitions and dispositions, development, leasing, financing, joint ventures, construction contracts, restructuring and workouts. He represents many well-known national and international owners, developers, investors, and financial institutions, as well as European investors, in both debt and equity transactions in the United States.

Mr. Polevoy’s practice includes representing the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as real estate counsel in the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site; the development of a 1.7 million-square foot headquarters building for The New York Times Company in Manhattan; representing General Motors in the relocation of their New York headquarters from the General Motors Building to Citigroup Center; representing Lehman Brothers in over 2 million square feet of leasing transactions and the acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ current Manhattan headquarters building; acquisition of over 4 million square feet of first-class office buildings for a prominent German open-end real estate fund; and serving as national real estate counsel for one of the largest real estate funds in the United States.

In addition, he has been a frequent participant, as program chair and as a speaker and panelist, in continuing legal education programs of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the Practicing Law Institute, Georgetown University Law Center, and the Anglo-American Real Estate Institute. He has also written extensively on various aspects of real estate law.

Mr. Polevoy has been recognized as a leading real estate practitioner in many prominent surveys. The International Who’s Who of Real Estate Lawyers and the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers have named Mr. Polevoy one of the 12 leading real estate lawyers in the world. He is named in the Guide to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers as an expert in real estate law. The respected English research publisher Chambers & Partners cites him in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading lawyer in real estate. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America. In 2007, Lawdragon named him among the Lawdragon 500 Dealmakers in America, and he was listed as a New York Super Lawyer. In 2008, Real Estate Weekly, the leading real estate newspaper for the New York metropolitan area, named Mr. Polevoy to its list of "All Stars in Real Estate."

PŘIJETÍ

• New York
• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Členství

• American Bar Association
• American College of Real Estate Lawyers (Member, Board of Governors)
• Anglo-American Real Property Institute
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• New York State Bar Association
• AFIRE-Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate
• The Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School , University of Pennsylvania