Martin F. Dowd

Marty remains a leading choice for businesses and investors on complex real estate transactional matters, alongside additional strength in leasing agreements.

Martin Dowd has extensive experience structuring sophisticated leasing and acquisitions and dispositions locally and nationally. As trends have shifted in the commercial leasing marketplace, Marty has responded, drafting and negotiating leases for landlords and tenants involving every sector of property, from office to industrial to retail.

He helps institutional investors, national developers, and corporations structure complex real estate transactions, move forward on major development projects, and acquire or dispose of properties in their real estate portfolios. Marty handles and supervises due diligence and transfers of national and global real estate assets involved in mergers and acquisitions.

Leading continuing education providers feature Marty as a lecturer on commercial real estate transactional matters and trends in the marketplace.

Represented privately owned commercial real estate investor, owner, and operator The Birch Group in the acquisition of the 42 story, 1.4 million-square-foot office building known as the Merrill Lynch Building, located at 101 Hudson Street in Jersey City, New Jersey, for $346 million. To finance the acquisition, we negotiated the assumption of a $250 million commercial mortgage-backed security loan and the structuring of both a preferred equity investment and common equity in excess of $120 million.

Represented a joint venture between SJP Properties and Scotto Properties in the leasing to Sanofi, a global life sciences company, of an entire 260,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art office/retail building to be constructed in downtown Morristown, NJ.

Represented developer Woodmont Properties in negotiating a major long-term ground lease for the development of a 443-unit, luxury, mixed-use rental apartment complex in Princeton, New Jersey.

Represented The Newark Museum of Art in negotiating a sale of land, a related ground lease, and a reciprocal operating agreement with a developer of an $85 million project that will develop two mixed-use apartment buildings with 250 apartments and ground floor retail space and 4,000 square feet of additional gallery space for the museum.

Represented privately owned commercial real estate investor, owner, and operator The Birch Group in acquiring two office buildings in Paramus, New Jersey. Our work included negotiating two ground leases with an investor as ground lessor to provide a portion of the capital for the acquisition.

Represented privately owned commercial real estate investor, owner, and operator The Birch Group in acquiring an 80-unit apartment complex for $42.85 million.

Negotiated for a developer landlord a lease with a multinational professional services company of 110,000 square feet of space at the developer’s planned mixed-use redevelopment project in Morristown, New Jersey.

Represented privately owned commercial real estate investor, owner, and operator The Birch Group in acquiring a 348,501-square-foot office property in Lake Success, New York for $62 million.

Represented privately owned commercial real estate investor, owner, and operator The Birch Group in acquiring four Class A office buildings totaling more than 840,000-square-feet of space in Short Hills, New Jersey for $255 million. Our work included negotiating three ground leases with an investor as ground lessor to provide a portion of the capital for the acquisition.

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