Name: Matthew Kasindorf
Title: Co-Chairman, Real Estate Development
Company: Meister Seelig & Fein LLP
Location: 2 Grand Central Tower, 140 East 45th St., 19th Floor, New York NY 10017
Place of Birth and date: August 8, 1958, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Family: Wife Susan; daughers Amanda and Erica
College: B.S. Accounting, NYU, 1980; J.D., Hofstra Law, 1982; L.L.M. Taxation, NYU, 1893
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Represent more developers and investors on great deal, teach more, play more golf.
Hobbies: Golf, reading
Favorite book: "Five Lessons: Modern Fundamentals of Golf" by Ben Hogan
Favorite movie: Not a movie guy
Keys to success: Treat every deal like it was your own
If you were forced to choose another vocation what would it be? Real estate developer
What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? I would like to say there was an outstanding transaction for me this past year but 2024 was more a culmination of long-term relationships, most of which continued to transact. Deals were smaller in many cases but we saw robust leasing both on the agency side as well as on the tenant side.