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Wayne B. Heicklen

Wayne B. Heicklen, Co-Chair of the Real Estate Group, concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate and corporate law, finance and general business transactions. Mr. Heicklen has a broad range of experience in such matters including development, sales, acquisitions, financings, joint ventures and commercial leasing. He also has extensive experience with Real Estate Investment Trusts and securitized ownership and financing of various real property interests, including tenant-in-common interests.

Mr. Heicklen has advised major financial institutions and real estate owners and developers in numerous sophisticated transactions involving office buildings, regional shopping centers, hotels, multi-family residential complexes, mixed-use projects, warehouse and industrial sites, and commercial and residential condominiums and cooperatives. 

Recently, Mr. Heicklen has focused a large part of his practice in the restructuring and workout of commercial mortgage and mezzanine loans affecting distressed properties, including foreclosure of such loans, deeds in lieu of foreclosure and structuring complex reinvestment and repositioning of the real property affected by such loans.

Mr. Heicklen's representative transactions include:

• Workout of Senior Mortgage and Mezzanine Loans affecting various development sites in Manhattan, New Jersey, Connecticut and Florida
• Foreclosure of Senior Mortgage and Mezzanine Loans affecting various property asset classes in the New York Metropolitan Area
• Acquisition of Main Street Restaurant Group Public Company by The Briad Group
• Acquisition of Maxwell on the Hudson Development in Hoboken, New Jersey by Pinnacle Companies and Toll Brothers Joint Venture
• Acquisition and development of 305 East 85th Street, New York, New York by Ascend Group and The Carlyle Group Joint Venture
• Acquisition and development of 325 Fifth Avenue by Continental Properties and Levine Builders Joint Venture

Previous Positions

• Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C., Counsel (1992-94)
• Dreyer & Traub, Partner (1989-92), Associate (1984-89)
• Lowenthal, Landau, Fischer & Ziegler, Associate (1982-84)

Speaking Engagements

• Speaker, Tri-State Real Estate Trends, New York University Real Estate Institute (November 2007)
• Speaker, Maryland Bar Association Annual Meeting
• Speaker, ICSC Real Estate Convention

Professional Affiliations

• New York State Bar Association

Distinctions

• Named by The Best Lawyers In America as one of the leading attorneys in Real Estate Law (2012 edition)
• Named as a “Super Lawyer” in the area of Real Estate by New York Super Lawyers – Metro Edition magazine (2010 and 2011 editions)
• Named Real Estate “All Star” in Real Estate Weekly’s published listing of “2008 All Stars”
• Named by The Legal 500 – Real Estate as being among the leading real estate lawyers in the United States (2007 edition)
• Featured as one of the "twelve most prominent real estate lawyers" in the September 2005 Real Estate New York cover story, Meet the Real Estate Lawyers