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Greenberg Traurig, LLP Offices
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
One Vanderbilt Avenue
NEW YORK
NEW YORK
NY 10017
United States
One Vanderbilt Avenue
NEW YORK
NEW YORK
NY 10017
United States
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Bennett I. Deutsch
Work Department
Tax
Position
Shareholder
Career
Bennett Deutsch has been practicing law since 1980 and concentrates his practice in structuring and negotiating real estate transactions. He has represented REITs and developers in connection with complex acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, mergers and restructurings. He regularly deals with strategies to defer recognition of gain, REIT qualification issues, disguised sale issues and tax protection agreements, as well as issues involving New York City real property transfer tax.
Capabilities
Tax
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
Real Estate
Real Estate Tax
Admission to Practice
New York
Languages
English
Education
- J.D., Columbia Law School, 1980
- Member, Columbia Law Review
- B.S., summa cum laude, Brooklyn College, 1977
- Phi Beta Kappa
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Real estate > Real estate
Firm Rankings
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Government > Government contracts
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation