Ms Nichole Cortese > Loeb & Loeb LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

With extensive experience advising on all sides of deals, Loeb & Loeb LLP acts for lenders, borrowers, developers, and investors across a wide gamut of real estate matters that includes acquisitions, disposals, and leasing as well as real estate finance and litigation. Advising on a number of headline deals, including its representation of The Buffalo Bills in the development of a new stadium, the practice is noted for its broad coverage of asset classes spanning industrials and office through to residential. Based in New York, Raymond Sanseverino serves as global chair, with Christopher Barbaruolo leading on real estate investments and transactions. Meanwhile, Nichole Cortese leads the leasing side, and real estate finance head Steven Kornblau being praised by one client as ‘an exceptional attorney with a very deep knowledge of complex issues.’ Also noted is deputy chair of the investments and transactions team, Victoria Stephanova, who is regularly involved in a broad set of finance and investment transactions.

Boasting a strong record of securing entitlements for high-profile projects, Loeb & Loeb LLP‘s land use practice is capable of guiding clients through the development process, from conception and feasibility through community and political outreach to processing and land use litigation. New York’s Raymond Sanseverino is the firm’s chair of the wider real estate department. With extensive experience working with governmental entities and private developers, Paul Rohrer is the co-deputy chair in Los Angeles, while Steven Kornblau is the co-deputy chair in New York and is an expert on real estate financing matters. New York’s Nichole Cortese heads the commercial real estate leasing group. Other key members of the Los Angeles-based team are Allan Abshez and Elizabeth Camacho, who focus on land use and development law, environmental review, and litigation, and Sophia Mei-Ling Chang, who is experienced in advising on public land, public infrastructure, and affordable housing developments. New York partner Brian Helweil arrived from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in May 2023, and Chrystal Dyer LaRoche, also based in New York, joined from Ropes & Gray LLP in April 2023.