 MITCHELL B. STERN
Partner / New York
Mr. Stern counsels clients in all areas of real estate including sales and acquisitions of all types of property interests, as well as financing and construction, with an emphasis on commercial leasing. Mr. Stern's leasing expertise extends to the representation of landlords and tenants for leases involving shopping centers (malls, outlets and strip centers), stores, offices, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, parking lots and garage facilities. Additionally, Mr. Stern regularly handles matters involving general business, corporate and commercial transactions. In his more than 20 years of private practice, Mr. Stern has also counseled clients extensively in the areas of trademarks and copyrights, employment and entertainment law, and litigation. Mr. Stern has made several appearances on national television as a legal expert on CNBC's "Money Talk," and has acted as a business and legal consultant to ABC News' "20/20."
Mr. Stern has been repeatedly selected as a Super Lawyer by the publisher of Law and Politics Magazine since 2006.
Mr. Stern is the author of Buy Your Own Business: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Purchasing a Business You Can Make a Success, a book (published in 1998 by Macmillan Books, a division of Simon & Schuster) on becoming an entrepreneur in the 21st Century and was also a contributing author and small business editor for Beat the System, a consumer, legal and business book published in 1997 by Rodale Press. Mr. Stern has written extensively for several major publications, including New York Magazine, Working Woman and Personal Finance Magazine on issues involving real estate, business and personal finance. He was also the small business and legal affairs editor for AT&T Small Business Solutions, a quarterly journal published by Business Week for AT&T, and in that capacity, wrote numerous articles for would-be and established entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Prior to joining Olshan, Mr. Stern was a partner at Dreier LLP in the Real Estate Department. His legal experience includes having practiced in the real estate department at prominent law firms in Manhattan and Miami, and more recently, heading the real estate and transactional department at Gursky & Partners, LLP.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
• Represented the tenant in leasing of corporate headquarters of approximately 175,000 square feet of office space in Midtown Manhattan.
• Represented several nationally known name brand retail tenants in national leasing programs for retail store locations through out the United States.
• Represented multiple luxury fashion industry tenants in leasing of retail space in Soho and on Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue in NYC, in East Hampton, NY, on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, and in Los Angeles, Malibu and San Fransciso in California, and in South Beach in Florida.
• Represented sellers and purchasers of high end residential real estate in NYC, Westchester and Long Island.
• Represented television production company in leasing of production studio and office facility in connection with filming of sitcom at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan.
• Represented seller of residential apartment buildings in Brooklyn.
• Represented seller of mixed used buildings in Chelsea.
BAR ADMISSIONS
1987, New York
1984, Florida (Inactive Status)
MEMBER
Association of the Bar of the City of New York |
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Real Estate
Intellectual Property
Corporate |
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J.D., University of Miami School of Law, 1984
Publication Editor, Inter-American Law Review
Managing Editor, Entertainment and Sports Law Journal
Bar and Gavel Society Honor Court
B.A., Michigan State University, 1980 |
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