Eisner joins DLA Piper as partner

Manhattan, NY Todd Eisner has joined DLA Piper as a partner in the real estate practice.

Eisner has a comprehensive practice focused on all aspects of real estate transactions, including sales, acquisitions, ground leasing, borrower-side financings, joint ventures, and development projects throughout the U.S. His clients often come to him to act as lead counsel on their more complex and high-profile transactions involving major players. Eisner has experience in structuring and negotiating real estate joint ventures, representing opportunistic investment funds, hedge funds, GP capital funds, developers, operators, startups, family offices and high net worth individuals. He also has comprehensive skills handling all aspects of hotel acquisitions and dispositions and has been lead counsel on numerous hotel portfolio transactions.

During the recent downturn, Eisner leveraged his skills to serve as a trusted advisor to his clients in navigating workouts and restructurings often involving creative “out of the box” solutions, as well as purchasing, selling and repositioning the capital stacks of distressed properties.

Transactions in which Eisner recently acted as lead counsel include: representing a multi-billion dollar hedge fund regarding its investment in mobile home parks and manufactured home communities throughout the U.S. valued at approximately U.S. $800 million; advising a GP capital fund in all aspects of a preferred equity investment and development of a high-end branded residence transaction; counseling a developer/operator on a variety of matters relating to a trophy asset in a major city which includes film studios, office space, retail space, and apartments; and advising the owners of an approximately 5 million square-foot multi-use project located in New York City, involving approximately 25 buildings valued at over US$1 billion in numerous capital transactions.

“We are thrilled to welcome Todd to the firm. He has a broad-ranging and sophisticated practice that is a perfect fit for our market-leading real estate platform, and his addition to our team will be of immediate benefit to our clients transacting in New York and elsewhere throughout the US,” said Bryan Connolly, US Chair of the Real Estate practice.

“Todd is a highly regarded and accomplished real estate lawyer with skills and experience across a wide variety of transactions. His addition to the firm will add further depth to our large and growing real estate practice,” said Jamie Knox, managing partner of DLA Piper’s New York office.

Eisner’s arrival is a part of the firm’s commitment to the growth of its real estate practice and follows shortly after the arrival of real estate partner Ryan Hanofee, who joined in early May, as well as Lewis Goss II and Warren Seay, Jr., who joined in April.