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Mr Evan Lazar

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Work Department

Real Estate

Position

Evan Z. Lazar is Co-Chairman of the Global Real Estate Group at Dentons. He also is the Chairman of the Board of the Europe region of Dentons, a Member of the Global Board and Global Vice Chair of Dentons around the world.

Evan is widely recognized as a top tier real estate lawyer specializing in multi-country property investment, joint ventures, and finance matters across Europe. He has over 30 years of experience advising on institutional real estate transactions involving single assets and portfolios in Europe and the US. Evan has worked on or led many of Europe’s largest and landmark projects across all industry sectors, including logistics, residential, multifamily/PRS and student housing, office, retail and hotel.

He has built an excellent, institutional client base, which includes major leading investors, Private Equity and pension funds, insurance companies, borrowers and developers. His clients include AIG Global Real Estate, Blackstone, GIC, Harrison Street, Heimstaden Bostad, Heitman International, Round Hill Capital and Starwood Capital Group, to name a few.

Career

Evan served as the Co-Chair of Salans’ Global Real Estate Group for 10 years before Dentons was founded.  Prior to that, he was the founder of the Central European Real Estate Practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and later Co-Chairman of their European Property and Finance Group. Before moving to Europe in 1993, Evan was a real estate lawyer in Philadelphia with Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen LLP.

Languages

English

Memberships

Pennsylvania Bar Association

Education

Temple University School of Law, 1987, JD, cum laude