Profile
Brandilyn Dumas focuses her practice on commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, financing, joint ventures, development, foreclosures, and restructurings, with respect to a variety of assets, including shopping centers, office buildings, hotels and resorts, multi-use developments, industrial properties, and multi-family developments.
Concentrations
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Senior and mezzanine financing
- Preferred Equity
- Joint Ventures
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented shopping center owner in the disposition of a $375.8M nine-center portfolio.
- Represented owner of multi-state residential portfolio (approximately $160M) in joint venture and related property and asset management agreements.
- Represented lender in connection with the $171M senior financing of various properties located in New York and Massachusetts.
- Represented borrower in the senior financing of various properties located in New York and Tennessee.
- Represented hotel and real estate company in connection with the $52.5M purchase of an iconic Georgia hotel.
- Represented commercial bank in the $60M senior construction financing of a New York City-based hotel.
- Represented real estate capital management firm in mezzanine financing and other transactions involving multiple participation interests.°
- Represented real estate investment firm in the $400 million acquisition and mortgage financing of a nine-building campus.°
- Represented hotel owner in the restructuring of $840 million in debt and other secured claims.°
- Represented shopping center owner in the acquisition of property and the assumption of $61.6 million mortgage loan.°
- Represented financial institution in the restructuring of mortgage, construction and mezzanine loans encumbering sites being developed as shopping centers.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Dumas prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
- Instructor, NYC Dept. of Education, I.S. 172, Teach for America, 2003-2005
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, "Ones to Watch," Real Estate Law, 2022-2024
- Listed, New York Real Estate Journal, “Ones to Watch Rising Stars,” 2023
- Listed, Crain’s New York, "Notable Women in Law," 2022
- Team Member, Chambers & Partners USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2017 and 2022
- Listed, City & State New York, The Responsible 100, 2020
- Selected, New York Law Journal, "Rising Stars," 2020
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, New York Metro Super Lawyers, "Rising Stars," 2017-2021
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2011-2013, 2015, 2019, 2022, and 2023
- Team Member, a U.S. News - Best Lawyers®, "Law Firm of the Year" in Real Estate Law, 2015
- Team Member, The Legal 500 United States, "Top Tier" Firm in Real Estate, 2014
- Trustee, Harlem Link Charter School, 2010-2024
- Director, WP Theater, 2022-Present
- Trustee, Winchester Thurston School, 2020-Present
- Mentor, NYU Law Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Fellows Program, 2023-Present
Credentials
Education
- J.D., New York University School of Law
- M.S.T., Fordham University
- B.A., cum laude, Duke University
Admissions
- New York