NEW YORK – Sept. 13, 2024 – Brandilyn Y. Dumas, a shareholder in the Real Estate Practice in global law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP’s New York office, has been named to Crain’s New York 2024 Notable Black Leaders list. For the honor, the publication selects Black leaders who manage, mentor, innovate, and give back, recognizing their accomplishments in business and the communities where they work and live.
This is Dumas’s second recognition by Crain’s for her experience, successes, and commitment to her community. Previously she was an honoree on Crain’s NewYork Notable Women in Law List 2022.
Dumas assists clients with commercial real estate matters, including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, development, mortgages, mezzanine loans and other structured financing, foreclosures, and restructuring for a variety of asset classes and types. Those assets include shopping centers, hotels, office buildings, industrial properties, and multifamily developments.
Dumas is committed to the future of the legal profession; to the next generation of local leaders; and to community organizations, focusing on education. She is a Career Development Liaison at the firm’s New York office and as such works with associates as part of the firm’s robust Associate Development Program. She also serves as a trustee at The Winchester Thurston School, a director at WP Theater, and a mentor at New York University School of Law Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Fellows Program. She has provided pro bono legal services to the East Harlem Tutorial Program for a decade. In addition, Dumas is a mentor for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, a group committed to advancing the next generation’s diverse legal leaders. She recently completed a 14-year tenure as a trustee for the Harlem Link Charter School.