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Daniel Ross Berman

Partner
Kramer Levin

Daniel Ross Berman counsels developers, investors, lenders and operators in a range of real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, development deals, preferred equity investments, loans, leases, recapitalizations and restructurings. His work spans hospitality, industrial, health care, entertainment, retail, office, multifamily and mixed-use properties.

Dan has a national practice that includes acquisitions, dispositions, and joint venture development deals across the country as well as a localized practice with an emphasis on complex development deals. For example, Dan is currently handling numerous redevelopment projects in New York City involving various religious and charitable institutions, each with different deal structures. These include ground leasing the land during development and dividing the ownership of the completed building between the developer and the institution by converting the property to a commercial condominium.  

Experience

  • Representing the developer of a multi-acre lifestyle destination anchored by a stadium with approximately 25,000 seats, concessions, entertainment and retail areas. The project will include multiple integrated, but individually developed, parcels totaling more than one million square feet of boutique shopping, entertainment experiences, sponsored events, restaurants, hotels and office space as well as public parks and sports fields.
  • Represented the buyer of a defaulted A Note with respect to an office property in New Jersey.
  • Representing the owner of a portfolio of office properties in Westchester in connection with various loan workouts.

Education

  • J.D., Columbia Law School, 2006
  • James Kent Scholar
  • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
  • Journal of Law and the Arts
  • B.A., with honors, Brown University, 1999

Bar Admissions

  • Florida, 2007
  • New York, 2007

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