NYCREW member, Tracey Daniels, discusses her career

Name: Tracey Daniels Title: Partner Company/firm: Hartman & Craven LLP Responsibilities include: Specializing in general corporate and real estate law as well as routine business and personal matters. With respect to general corporate and business law, Daniels has extensive experience with complex mergers, acquisitions and dispositions. She advices clients with respect to the formation of, and investments in, joint ventures, limited liability companies, partnerships and closely-held corporations, restructuring of such entities, and transfers of interests therein. Daniels has a diverse real estate practice. She has represented numerous sponsors of offering plans with respect to both new construction projects and the conversion of existing buildings. Ms. Daniels has experience in commercial real estate financing from both a borrower's and lender's perspective. She has adviced clients in connection with financings and refinancings of office, retail and multifamily properties, as well as mezzanine financing, construction loans and loan workouts. Daniels also has extensive experience with the acquisition and disposition of commercial and residential real property as well as commercial leasing from both a landlord's and tenant's perspective. Daniels is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law and the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is a member of New York State Bar Association, its Real Property Law Section, a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York as well as Co-Chair of the Programs Committee of New York Commercial Real Estate Women (NYCREW). Who has been the strongest influence on your career and why? I can't narrow it down to one individual. In the six years I've been at Hartman & Craven LLP I've worked closely with a number of excellent attorneys, but three in particular stand out. Each one has his own negotiation style, his own business development strategies and his own method of teaching and mentoring. I've been able to discover what works best for me by adopting the skills I admire most in each of them. What advice would you give to a woman just starting a career in your field? As for young women starting a legal career today, I think it's important to get a broad based, high quality legal education both in school and in the real world. Notwithstanding, I think that anyone has the ability to learn the law; it's the quality of the people you work with that enable you to truly excel at what you do.