Friedland joins Herrick's real estate department as counsel

New York, NY According to Herrick, Seth Friedland, one of the New York metropolitan area’s leading environmental lawyers, has joined their real estate department as counsel. Friedland’s arrival enhances our ability to advise developers, owners, lenders and tenants on transactions, litigation, government relations and regulatory concerns for environmentally impacted and distressed properties, including Superfund and brownfields sites. He has a wealth of experience – in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and across the country – dealing with the acquisition, sale, development, financing, joint venture, leasing, ground leasing and operation of environmentally sensitive properties, as well as related litigation and regulatory concerns. Friedland is also one of the region’s leading authorities on gas station and petroleum facilities redevelopment, and petroleum marketing. Gas stations and petroleum facilities often present compelling redevelopment opportunities, and his wealth of experience positions Herrick as the go-to law firm for the full suite of legal and governmental concerns associated with owning, maintaining, operating and redeveloping these sites, as well as all petroleum marketing and downstream issues. Friedland’s clients in this area include major petroleum jobbers, terminal operators, lenders, real estate developers and the owners of more than 500 gas stations. His recent gas station-related work includes the negotiation of a master lease with BP for 25 New York City gas station sites; the sale of a Brooklyn gas station to a publicly-traded developer; the successful Chapter 11 reorganization of a large independent retail gas chain; the acquisition and financing of 20 Connecticut Shell gas stations; and the acquisition and financing of 90 Shell gas stations in New York City. Friedland is also currently advising a joint venture between Related Companies and LargaVista Companies on environmental matters in the development of a $200 million retail and office building on the corner of Lafayette and East Houston in Soho.