Steven Lichtenfeld > Proskauer Rose LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Steven Lichtenfeld

Work Department
Corporate; Capital Markets
Position
Steven L. Lichtenfeld is co-head of Proskauer’s Real Estate Capital Markets and Digital Infrastructure Groups. He regularly advises real estate and digital infrastructure funds, REITs, sovereign wealth funds, institutional lenders, specialty lenders, hedge funds, and pension advisors regarding public offerings and private placements of real estate and infrastructure-related debt and equity securities, real estate and infrastructure-related mergers and acquisitions, real estate and infrastructure preferred equity investments and joint ventures, real estate and infrastructure-related senior and mezzanine financings and other corporate, partnership and limited liability company matters.
Steven has a unique skill set that allows him to quarterback a broad spectrum of transactions including public and private REIT and infrastructure offerings (both traded and non-traded), real estate and infrastructure mergers and acquisitions, real estate and infrastructure preferred equity investments and joint ventures and real estate and infrastructure recapitalizations and reorganizations.
Steven also counsels his public REIT and infrastructure and other clients on a broad range of corporate, securities and business-related matters, including directors’ duties and responsibilities and other aspects of corporate governance, disclosure issues and compliance matters as well as defensive measures and takeover tasks.
Steven is a prolific author and speaker, having penned numerous articles and lectured before dozens of organizations throughout the country on various real estate capital markets, real estate private equity and real estate finance topics. Steven is also a member of the Board of Spark Youth NYC and is active on his Urban Land Institute council, UDMUC Bronze.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate finance
Proskauer Rose LLP has a comprehensive real estate finance practice, drawing on multidisciplinary strengths and practitioners to counsel clients across a broad spectrum of matters, from the acquisition and workout of large loan and asset portfolios to the restructuring of real estate debt at every tranche level. The team has four practice heads: Steven Lichtenfeld, David Weinberger, and Ronald Sernau in New York and Keith Barnett in Boston. Lichtenfeld distinguishes himself for his deep knowledge of the digital infrastructure sector while Weinberger is experienced in the origination and securitization of complex mortgage and mezzanine loans.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)