Profile
Howard S. Schochet is Co-Chair of the firm's New York Real Estate Practice. Howard focuses his practice on commercial real estate and has national experience in sales and acquisitions, development, securitized financings, mortgage and mezzanine financings, joint ventures, sale-leaseback transactions and loan participations.
Concentrations
- Real estate finance
- Real estate sales and acquisitions
- Joint ventures
- Mezzanine financings
- Loan participations
- Development
- Sales and acquisitions of mortgage loans
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented a family office in a joint venture for the development and financing of a five-star resort in northern California.
- Represented a joint venture in connection with the financing of a luxury resort.
- Represented a fund in connection with the acquisition of and financing of over $500,000,000 in single family rental properties across the southeastern United States.
- Represented a fund in connection with a $200,000,000 acquisition and financing of the fee interest in a ground leased property located in Santa Barbara, California.
- Represented an institutional lender in connection foreclosure and sale of a multifamily property located in Florida.
- Represented an institutional lender in connection with the origination of a first mortgage loan secured industrial property located in northern Florida.
- Represented an institutional lender in connection with condominium inventory loan for units located in New York, New York.
- Represented an institutional lender in connection with the origination of a mezzanine loan for the construction of a hotel located in Times Square, New York.
- Represented an institutional lender holding a mezzanine loan in connection with the restructuring of a debt stack for a property located in New York, New York.
- Represented a fund in connection with a joint venture for development of single-family rental properties located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, Lawdragon, 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers, 2024
- Team Member, Chambers & Partners USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2010, 2013, 2017-2018, and 2022
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, New York Metro Super Lawyers, 2012-2024
- Team Member, a U.S. News - Best Lawyers®, "Law Firm of the Year" in Real Estate Law, 2015
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2011-2013, 2015, 2022 and 2023
- Team Member, The Legal 500 United States, "Top Tier" Firm in Real Estate, 2013 and 2014
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, The Florida Bar Association
Credentials
Education
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J.D., with distinction, Hofstra University School of Law, 1996
- Member, Hofstra Labor Law Journal
- Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Real Property
- Member, Hofstra Labor Law Journal
- B.B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993
Admissions
- New York