Joseph Brasile specializes in complex commercial real estate transactions for a diverse clientele, including owners, developers, institutional and private lenders, borrowers, landlords, and tenants. He possesses extensive experience in real estate financing, covering permanent loans, acquisition loans, construction loans, mezzanine loans, note financings, loan sales, and cooperative loans. When dealing with distressed assets, Joseph manages loan workouts, forbearance agreements, deed-in-lieu of foreclosure arrangements, and DIP financing, often working alongside foreclosure or bankruptcy counsel.
For owners and developers, Joseph negotiates various agreements, such as purchase and sale agreements, ground leases, sale-leasebacks, office and retail leases, air rights transactions, development agreements, bulk condominium sales, management contracts, parking agreements, loan documentation, joint venture agreements, preferred equity placements, construction contracts, architect agreements, engineering contracts, exclusive leasing agreements, and other brokerage contracts.
Joseph’s extensive representation of lenders, owners, developers, and tenants spans multiple asset classes, including office buildings, development projects, hotels, shopping centers, retail spaces, parking garages, mixed-use developments, condominiums, multifamily properties, and industrial sites. His profound understanding of the varying needs and perspectives of different parties involved in these complex transactions allows him to effectively negotiate as a lender’s counsel, developer’s counsel, landlord’s counsel, or tenant’s counsel, ensuring that the goals and risk tolerances of each client are met through strategic collaboration.
