Real Estate Chair Gary M. Meltzer Selected to Long Island Press Power List

Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP is proud to announce that Gary M. Meltzer, Chair of Meltzer Lippe’s Real Estate practice group was selected for inclusion in Long Island Press’ Power List. The annual list, now in its 19th year, honors Long Island’s most influential leaders who have the most impact on the lives of those in the region.

Gary’s practice is a national commercial transactional practice with an emphasis on selling, buying, leasing and finance. Gary’s practice includes all aspects of commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, including 1031 exchanges, loan assumptions and defeasances. He has prepared tenancy in common agreements, partnership and operating agreements and created complex organizational structures and has experience in representing owners of shopping centers, multi-family developments, office buildings, golf course and residential communities and industrial and warehouse developments. He also represents landlords and tenants in drafting and negotiating commercial leases. Gary represents lenders and borrowers in all facets of real estate lending and borrowing, including multi-state portfolio financings on the lending and borrowing sides, originating CMBS, life insurance company and bank loans as well as drafting and negotiating participation and intercreditor agreements between lenders and drafting and negotiating forbearance agreements between lenders and borrowers.

Gary also represents sellers and purchasers of real estate loans including performing due diligence, drafting and negotiating sale-purchase agreements and handling all aspects of closing loan sale and / or purchase transactions.

Gary received his J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School and is admitted to the New York State Bar and Connecticut State Bar.