Profilo
Zachary O. Bazara represents buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, developers and builders, landlords and tenants in connection with all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, commercial leasing, title insurance, and complex commercial financing. He handles matters relating to every phase of the acquisition, disposition and financing of commercial real estate, including title and survey review and preparation and negotiation of related transactional and financing documents.
Zachary is experienced in negotiating triple net and industrial gross leases for office, retail, and industrial space, as well as related documents, such as brokerage agreements, leasing and property management agreements, assignment and assumption agreements, subordination agreements and security agreements.
Concentrations
- Real estate finance
- Real estate acquisitions and dispositions
- Commercial leasing (office, industrial, retail)
Competenze
Esperienze Professionali - Attività Accademiche
- Counsel to secured lender in $240 million multi-state loan facility.
- Counsel to secured lender in $350 million multi-state loan facility.
- Counsel to life insurance company in financing of properties throughout the United States, including, office, retail, industrial and mixed-use projects.
- Counsel to national retailers in their leasing matters throughout the United States.
- Counsel to landlords and tenants in shopping center, office and warehouse leasing.
- Counsel to purchasers and sellers of shopping centers, office buildings, apartment buildings and mixed use projects.
- Involved in representation of a domestic banking institution in connection with a $3.35 million construction revolver to finance construction of an 18,197 square foot office building, secured, in part, by real property located in Broward County, Florida.°
- Involved in representation of Terranova Corporation and its affiliate in one of the largest real estate deals in recent South Florida history, the $342 million acquisition of six separate buildings on Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road. Transaction involved negotiation of a new joint venture agreement with an institutional investor and obtaining financing from two institutional lenders as part of the acquisition of 113,790 square feet of street-level retail space along Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Florida.°
- Involved in representation of Terranova Corporation and its affiliate in obtaining a term loan in an amount up to $25 million as part of the acquisition of an income producing mixed-use portfolio, consisting of eight separate buildings and containing 74,354 square feet of office and street-level retail space along Miracle Mile in Coral Gables, Florida.°
- Involved in representation of Terranova Corporation and its affiliate in the $85 million sale of two adjacent multi-anchor retail centers, consisting of 85,000 square feet and 268,000 square feet respectively and located in Pembroke Pines, Florida.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Bazara prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
- In-House Counsel, Terranova Corporation, 2012-2014
- Post-graduate Fellow, Legal Services of Greater Miami Tenants’ Rights Project, Winter 2012
Riconoscimenti e Premi
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, "Ones to Watch," Real Estate Law, 2024-2025
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2023
- Team Member, Chambers & Partners USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2017-2018 and 2022
- Selected, Fort Lauderdale Illustrated, "Top Lawyers - Real Estate Law," 2020-2022
- Member of the Board of Trustees, Fort Lauderdale Historical Society
Formazione
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Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza, cum laude, University of Florida Levin College of Law
- Certificate in Environmental & Land Use Law
- Diploma di maturità, cum laude, University of Florida
- Florida
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida