Peter Koffler is a partner in the firm's New York Office and is Leader of the New York Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental Practice Group.

Areas of Practice

Peter has a broad-based transactional real estate practice, and works on complex and high-profile matters in New York City and nationally. With over 30 years of experience, Peter focuses his practice on all areas of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, sales, leasing, sale/leaseback transactions, construction/development, air rights transfers, and financing. Asset classes regularly include commercial/office, multifamily, retail, hospitality, self-storage, and mixed use. Peter also regularly advises on multi-property/multi-State portfolio transactions, as well as cannabis-related financing matters. 

Peter has extensive experience, over several business cycles, in loan restructures and workouts, joint venture modifications and recapitalizations, deed-in-lieu, and other distressed market transactions.

His clients include domestic and foreign commercial developers, owners, and operators, as well as several “non-real estate” companies with significant real estate holdings, such as insurance companies, healthcare providers, commercial and private banks, mining companies, and pension funds.

Peter also works extensively with the structuring and negotiation of complex multi-tier joint ventures, representing the developer/operator partner and the capital partner and/or preferred equity holders.