Partner schoenfeld@thsh.com 212-508-6713 LinkedIn
Practice Areas
Areas of Focus
- Commercial real estate investment and development
- Real estate joint ventures
- Real estate finance
- Commercial leasing
- Distressed real estate transactions
Industries
Eric S. Schoenfeld
Partner schoenfeld@thsh.com 212-508-6713 LinkedIn
Practice Areas
Areas of Focus
- Commercial real estate investment and development
- Real estate joint ventures
- Real estate finance
- Commercial leasing
- Distressed real estate transactions
Industries
Eric S. Schoenfeld
Partner schoenfeld@thsh.com 212-508-6713 LinkedIn
Practice Areas
Areas of Focus
- Commercial real estate investment and development
- Real estate joint ventures
- Real estate finance
- Commercial leasing
- Distressed real estate transactions
Industries
Biography
Eric Schoenfeld is Chair of Tannenbaum Helpern's Real Estate Law practice. He has more than twenty-five years of experience advising real estate investors, developers, private equity funds, and business organizations on a wide range of real estate transactions including the acquisition, financing, development, leasing and sale of various commercial real estate assets such as shopping centers, office and multi-family projects, warehouse and industrial facilities and hotels, located both in New York City and across the country.
Eric frequently represents:
- national and regional investors in the acquisition and sale of real estate assets
- national and regional investors, developers and private equity funds in the structuring and negotiation of sophisticated joint venture arrangements
- borrowers and lenders in connection with acquisition, permanent and construction loan financings, mezzanine loan financings and other debt structures
- institutional and non-institutional owners of office, telecom and shopping centers in leasing transactions
- corporations and other organizations in their leasing of office, retail and industrial space for business operations and related facility management activities
New York University School of Law (J.D.)
- Honors: American Jurisprudence Award in Land Finance and Transfer
University of Michigan (B.B.A.)
- Honors: High Distinctions
- Hofheimer Gartlir & Gross
- Richards & O'Neill (merged into Bingham McCutchen LLP)
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- New York
- Best Lawyers®, Real Estate Law (2018-2025)
- Super Lawyers® New York Metro Area, Real Estate (2013-2024)
Professional:
- New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section
- International Council of Shopping Centers
- Represented prominent New York City developer in connection with acquisition of Long Island College Hospital campus in Brooklyn, New York, and construction loan financing for the development of multiple campus parcels.
- Represented nationally known developer in connection with acquisition, development and financing of a residential condominium and retail mixed-use project in Williamsburg, New York.
- Represented several real estate private equity funds in connection with multiple joint venture real estate investments, including acquisition of office buildings, in Indiana and Massachusetts, acquisition and development of multi-family housing in Florida and Georgia, acquisition of a regional mall in Buffalo, New York, acquisition of hotels in North Carolina, Utah and California, and acquisition of a portfolio of distressed mortgage loans.
- Represented nationally known shopping center owner in connection with a portfolio sale of eighteen shopping centers in the northeast United States to a publicly owned REIT, on a tax deferred basis.
- Represented private investor group in connection with preferred equity investment in a distressed residential and commercial condominium project in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, including restructuring of the construction loan financing and the mezzanine loan.
- Represented seller of majority ownership in waterfront development site in Williamsburg, New York, pursuant to a complex joint venture agreement providing option to seller to maintain an investment in the development on a tax-deferred basis.
- Represented residential developer in connection with acquisition, and construction and mezzanine financing, of a residential and hotel development site in downtown Manhattan, New York, and sale of a portion of the development site to a hotel developer.
- Represented national shopping center developer in connection with a securitized mortgage loan refinancing of six shopping centers in Puerto Rico.
- Represented national real estate investment fund in connection with the acquisition and financing, and subsequent sale, of "Class A" office buildings in Miami, Florida and Hollywood, Florida, in separate transactions.
- Represented international manufacturer in connection with acquisition, financing and development of industrial site in California.
- Represented seller in connection with the portfolio sale of six industrial facilities/warehouses in Southeastern, United States to an institutional real estate fund.
- Represented seller of a hotel in downtown Manhattan, New York to a national public REIT on a tax deferred basis.
- Represented institutional owner of Manhattan office building in connection with more than twelve separate lease transactions.
- Represented publicly owned, international, retail tenant in connection with more than twenty separate lease transactions throughout the United States.
Case Studies
- Structuring and Formation of U.S. Real Estate-Focused Private Equity Fund
- Sale of Portfolio of Shopping Centers located in Puerto Rico to a Publicly Traded REIT
- Acquisition and Financing for the Development of Luxury Apartment Building in Downtown Manhattan
- Acquisition of a controlling interest in a joint venture formed to acquire and develop multifamily housing units and a church
- Joint Venture Re-development of Industrial Warehouse into Creative-use Office
- Acquisition and Financing of a Hotel in Detroit by a National Real Estate Investment Firm
- Construction Mortgage Financing for New Jersey Gold Coast Class A Development
Publications
- Borrower’s Approach to The Real Estate Mortgage Loan Workout
- New York State Passes Good Cause Eviction Law, Redefining the Meaning of Free Market Apartment Rentals
- The Corporate Transparency Act: A Guide to Beneficial Ownership Disclosure
- The “Art” of Negotiating a Commercial Real Estate Mortgage Loan Term Sheet
- Proposed Tax on Real Estate Mezzanine Debt and Preferred Equity Financing…Once Again.
- The “Art” of the Commercial Real Estate Lease Term Sheet
- Proposed Tax on Mezzanine Financing Extends its Reach to Preferred Equity
- Corporate Transparency Act Imposes New Compliance Obligations on Real Estate Investors
- Transfer Taxes Lurk in New York Foreclosure and Deed-in-Lieu Transactions: Part 2 of 2
- Transfer Taxes Lurk in New York Foreclosure and Deed-in-Lieu Transactions: Part 1 of 2
- Update to Summary of Legislative Relief for Tenants and Mortgage Borrowers in New York State in Response to COVID-19
- Summary of Legislative Relief for Tenants and Mortgage Borrowers in New York State in Response to COVID-19
- COVID-19 Rent Relief: The Anticipated "Commercial Lease Workout"
- Real Estate Contracts: Does COVID-19 Excuse Timely Performance?
- Proposed NYS Legislation May Increase the Cost of Mezzanine Financing
- NY Real Estate Investors Venturing Outside of New York Due to New Rent Regulation Face Unfamiliar Practices
- NY Court of Appeals Upholds Commercial Tenant's Yellowstone Injunction Waiver
- Real Estate Transfer Tax and Mansion Tax Rates
- Qualified Opportunity Zones: The Real Estate Developer's Perspective
- Retail Tenant Bankruptcies: A Shift in Favor of Landlords' Bids to Terminate Leases
- NY Appellate Court Shifts Balance of Power in Commercial Real Estate Leases: Upholds Yellowstone Injunction Waiver
- Proposed Legislation May Boost Construction Financing
- Hidden Costs: New York City’s Submetering and Lighting
- An Eye on Commercial Real Estate in 2017
- Hidden Impact of a Major Accounting Change on the Commercial Real Estate Market
News
- Super Lawyers® Names 36 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys in 2024 New York City Metro Rankings • 10.24.2024
- Best Lawyers® Recognizes 24 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys in 2025 New York City Metro Rankings • 08.15.2024
- Best Lawyers® Ranks 13 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys to 2023 New York City Metro Rankings • 08.17.2022
- 35 Tannenbaum Helpern attorneys recognized in Super Lawyers 2020 • 10.29.2020
- Best Lawyers 2021 recognizes 13 Tannenbaum Helpern attorneys • 08.26.2020
- Tannenbaum Helpern Receives National Top Tier Ranking in U.S. News – Best Lawyers’ 2020 “Best Law Firms” List • 12.05.2019
- 30 Tannenbaum Helpern attorneys recognized in Super Lawyers 2019 • 10.17.2019
- Best Lawyers 2020 recognizes nine Tannenbaum Helpern attorneys • 08.22.2019
- 26 Tannenbaum Helpern attorneys recognized in the 2018 New York Metro Super Lawyers list • 10.22.2018
- Fortis Property Group Gets $66M for NYC Condos • 10.03.2018
- Eight Tannenbaum Helpern attorneys selected to The Best Lawyers in America© 2019 • 08.20.2018
- Tannenbaum Helpern Named Leading Real Estate Law Firm • 10.12.2017
- 27 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys Recognized In The 2017 New York Metro Super Lawyers List • 09.20.2017
- Eight Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys Included In The Best Lawyers In America© 2018 List • 08.17.2017
- Tannenbaum Helpern Represents Second Canaan Baptist Church In Complex Redevelopment • 05.01.2017
- 28 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys Selected To The 2016 New York Metro Super Lawyers List • 09.27.2016
- Tannenbaum Helpern Recognized As 2016 Top 40 Leading Real Estate Law Firm • 09.08.2016
- Emmet Marvin, Tannenbaum Helpern Guide $90M NYC Loan • 06.14.2016
- 27 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys Selected To The 2015 New York Metro Super Lawyers List • 09.17.2015
- Tannenbaum Helpern’s Client’s Purchase Of Long Island College Hospital Ranked Among The Top 3 Real Estate Development Deals In 2014 By The Real Deal • 01.13.2015
- 34 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys Have Been Selected To The 2014 New York Metro Super Lawyers List, Including Two Commercial Litigators In The Top 100 Super Lawyers List • 10.08.2014
Eric Schoenfeld is Chair of Tannenbaum Helpern's Real Estate Law practice. He has more than twenty-five years of experience advising real estate investors, developers, private equity funds, and business organizations on a wide range of real estate transactions including the acquisition, financing, development, leasing and sale of various commercial real estate assets such as shopping centers, office and multi-family projects, warehouse and industrial facilities and hotels, located both in New York City and across the country.
Eric frequently represents:
- national and regional investors in the acquisition and sale of real estate assets
- national and regional investors, developers and private equity funds in the structuring and negotiation of sophisticated joint venture arrangements
- borrowers and lenders in connection with acquisition, permanent and construction loan financings, mezzanine loan financings and other debt structures
- institutional and non-institutional owners of office, telecom and shopping centers in leasing transactions
- corporations and other organizations in their leasing of office, retail and industrial space for business operations and related facility management activities
New York University School of Law (J.D.)
- Honors: American Jurisprudence Award in Land Finance and Transfer
University of Michigan (B.B.A.)
- Honors: High Distinctions
- Hofheimer Gartlir & Gross
- Richards & O'Neill (merged into Bingham McCutchen LLP)
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- New York
- Best Lawyers®, Real Estate Law (2018-2025)
- Super Lawyers® New York Metro Area, Real Estate (2013-2024)
Professional:
- New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section
- International Council of Shopping Centers
- Represented prominent New York City developer in connection with acquisition of Long Island College Hospital campus in Brooklyn, New York, and construction loan financing for the development of multiple campus parcels.
- Represented nationally known developer in connection with acquisition, development and financing of a residential condominium and retail mixed-use project in Williamsburg, New York.
- Represented several real estate private equity funds in connection with multiple joint venture real estate investments, including acquisition of office buildings, in Indiana and Massachusetts, acquisition and development of multi-family housing in Florida and Georgia, acquisition of a regional mall in Buffalo, New York, acquisition of hotels in North Carolina, Utah and California, and acquisition of a portfolio of distressed mortgage loans.
- Represented nationally known shopping center owner in connection with a portfolio sale of eighteen shopping centers in the northeast United States to a publicly owned REIT, on a tax deferred basis.
- Represented private investor group in connection with preferred equity investment in a distressed residential and commercial condominium project in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, including restructuring of the construction loan financing and the mezzanine loan.
- Represented seller of majority ownership in waterfront development site in Williamsburg, New York, pursuant to a complex joint venture agreement providing option to seller to maintain an investment in the development on a tax-deferred basis.
- Represented residential developer in connection with acquisition, and construction and mezzanine financing, of a residential and hotel development site in downtown Manhattan, New York, and sale of a portion of the development site to a hotel developer.
- Represented national shopping center developer in connection with a securitized mortgage loan refinancing of six shopping centers in Puerto Rico.
- Represented national real estate investment fund in connection with the acquisition and financing, and subsequent sale, of "Class A" office buildings in Miami, Florida and Hollywood, Florida, in separate transactions.
- Represented international manufacturer in connection with acquisition, financing and development of industrial site in California.
- Represented seller in connection with the portfolio sale of six industrial facilities/warehouses in Southeastern, United States to an institutional real estate fund.
- Represented seller of a hotel in downtown Manhattan, New York to a national public REIT on a tax deferred basis.
- Represented institutional owner of Manhattan office building in connection with more than twelve separate lease transactions.
- Represented publicly owned, international, retail tenant in connection with more than twenty separate lease transactions throughout the United States.
- Structuring and Formation of U.S. Real Estate-Focused Private Equity Fund
- Sale of Portfolio of Shopping Centers located in Puerto Rico to a Publicly Traded REIT
- Acquisition and Financing for the Development of Luxury Apartment Building in Downtown Manhattan
- Acquisition of a controlling interest in a joint venture formed to acquire and develop multifamily housing units and a church
- Joint Venture Re-development of Industrial Warehouse into Creative-use Office
- Acquisition and Financing of a Hotel in Detroit by a National Real Estate Investment Firm
- Construction Mortgage Financing for New Jersey Gold Coast Class A Development
- Borrower’s Approach to The Real Estate Mortgage Loan Workout
- New York State Passes Good Cause Eviction Law, Redefining the Meaning of Free Market Apartment Rentals
- The Corporate Transparency Act: A Guide to Beneficial Ownership Disclosure
- The “Art” of Negotiating a Commercial Real Estate Mortgage Loan Term Sheet
- Proposed Tax on Real Estate Mezzanine Debt and Preferred Equity Financing…Once Again.
- The “Art” of the Commercial Real Estate Lease Term Sheet
- Proposed Tax on Mezzanine Financing Extends its Reach to Preferred Equity
- Corporate Transparency Act Imposes New Compliance Obligations on Real Estate Investors
- Transfer Taxes Lurk in New York Foreclosure and Deed-in-Lieu Transactions: Part 2 of 2
- Transfer Taxes Lurk in New York Foreclosure and Deed-in-Lieu Transactions: Part 1 of 2
- Update to Summary of Legislative Relief for Tenants and Mortgage Borrowers in New York State in Response to COVID-19
- Summary of Legislative Relief for Tenants and Mortgage Borrowers in New York State in Response to COVID-19
- COVID-19 Rent Relief: The Anticipated "Commercial Lease Workout"
- Real Estate Contracts: Does COVID-19 Excuse Timely Performance?
- Proposed NYS Legislation May Increase the Cost of Mezzanine Financing
- NY Real Estate Investors Venturing Outside of New York Due to New Rent Regulation Face Unfamiliar Practices
- NY Court of Appeals Upholds Commercial Tenant's Yellowstone Injunction Waiver
- Real Estate Transfer Tax and Mansion Tax Rates
- Qualified Opportunity Zones: The Real Estate Developer's Perspective
- Retail Tenant Bankruptcies: A Shift in Favor of Landlords' Bids to Terminate Leases
- NY Appellate Court Shifts Balance of Power in Commercial Real Estate Leases: Upholds Yellowstone Injunction Waiver
- Proposed Legislation May Boost Construction Financing
- Hidden Costs: New York City’s Submetering and Lighting
- An Eye on Commercial Real Estate in 2017
- Hidden Impact of a Major Accounting Change on the Commercial Real Estate Market
- Super Lawyers® Names 36 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys in 2024 New York City Metro Rankings • 10.24.2024
- Best Lawyers® Recognizes 24 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys in 2025 New York City Metro Rankings • 08.15.2024
- Best Lawyers® Ranks 13 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys to 2023 New York City Metro Rankings • 08.17.2022
- 35 Tannenbaum Helpern attorneys recognized in Super Lawyers 2020 • 10.29.2020
- Best Lawyers 2021 recognizes 13 Tannenbaum Helpern attorneys • 08.26.2020
- Tannenbaum Helpern Receives National Top Tier Ranking in U.S. News – Best Lawyers’ 2020 “Best Law Firms” List • 12.05.2019
- 30 Tannenbaum Helpern attorneys recognized in Super Lawyers 2019 • 10.17.2019
- Best Lawyers 2020 recognizes nine Tannenbaum Helpern attorneys • 08.22.2019
- 26 Tannenbaum Helpern attorneys recognized in the 2018 New York Metro Super Lawyers list • 10.22.2018
- Fortis Property Group Gets $66M for NYC Condos • 10.03.2018
- Eight Tannenbaum Helpern attorneys selected to The Best Lawyers in America© 2019 • 08.20.2018
- Tannenbaum Helpern Named Leading Real Estate Law Firm • 10.12.2017
- 27 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys Recognized In The 2017 New York Metro Super Lawyers List • 09.20.2017
- Eight Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys Included In The Best Lawyers In America© 2018 List • 08.17.2017
- Tannenbaum Helpern Represents Second Canaan Baptist Church In Complex Redevelopment • 05.01.2017
- 28 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys Selected To The 2016 New York Metro Super Lawyers List • 09.27.2016
- Tannenbaum Helpern Recognized As 2016 Top 40 Leading Real Estate Law Firm • 09.08.2016
- Emmet Marvin, Tannenbaum Helpern Guide $90M NYC Loan • 06.14.2016
- 27 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys Selected To The 2015 New York Metro Super Lawyers List • 09.17.2015
- Tannenbaum Helpern’s Client’s Purchase Of Long Island College Hospital Ranked Among The Top 3 Real Estate Development Deals In 2014 By The Real Deal • 01.13.2015
- 34 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys Have Been Selected To The 2014 New York Metro Super Lawyers List, Including Two Commercial Litigators In The Top 100 Super Lawyers List • 10.08.2014