In the last 12 months, what was your TOP career highlight? I was recently appointed as chair of the Touro Law Center Board of Governors. I have been an active member of the Board for several years and have donated to the school for scholarships and other initiatives. I look forward to help make a difference for all the students and various constituents of Touro Law.

In the last 12 months, what ONE award were you most proud to receive? To celebrate the firm’s 75^th anniversary, the firm designed a program to donate to 75 local not-for-profit organizations and called it Jaspan Schlesinger LLP’s Heart of Community award. These financial awards were given to organizations with a proven commitment to improving New York. I was proud to accept the Philanthropy Law Firm of the Year award on behalf of the firm for our Heart of the Community year-long campaign.

Jothy Narendran is chair of the firm’s banking and financial services practice group. She represents institutional and private lenders in a variety of commercial real estate financing transactions.

These include acquisition and construction loans, equipment financing, leasehold financing, multi-lender participation/syndicated financing, real estate investment trust and interest rate swap transactions, revolving credit facilities, letters of credit, industrial development agency transactions, Section 1031 exchanges and reverse exchange loans, mezzanine and structured financing and defeasances.

Jothy has worked on a variety of properties, ranging from multifamily properties to assemblages of entire city blocks for the development of multi-use projects, including residential, retail, and office components. She has also negotiated regulatory agreements, leases, and subordination agreements with various municipal agencies. Jothy also acts as counsel to lenders in connection with negotiating intercreditor agreements, triparty agreements, and note sales and purchases.

Jothy is a member of the firm’s management committee and co-managing partner of Jaspan Schlesinger LLP.