Yehuda is an associate in the firm’s capital finance and real estate team.

Yehuda’s practice focuses on representing financial institutions, owners and developers in a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, real estate finance, real estate development and corporate formation. Yehuda also represents tenants in connection with long-term leases. He has experience with various asset types including office buildings, shopping centers, development sites and multi-family residential complexes.

Relevant Experience

• Represented real estate developer with its $19 million sale of a newly developed, PHIUS certified residential apartment building located in NYC.
• Represented Nahla Capital in connection with its $137 million construction financing for a luxury and branded residential and retail condominium development in Los Angeles, CA.
• Represented a real estate company in the acquisition of three industrial properties located in upstate New York.
• Represented an investment manager, in its capacity as a mezzanine lender, in the foreclosure of the membership interests in an entity which owned a hotel in Georgia and the related modification of the senior loan documents.
• Represented an institutional lender with the origination of a mortgage loan in the amount of  $55 million, secured by an office building located in Long Beach, California.
• Represented a real estate investor in connection with its $134 million construction loan and securing of a $47 million preferred equity investment for the construction of a mixed-used development located in Westchester County, NY comprised of 468 residential units, retail space and six story parking garage.
• Represented a non-profit synagogue in connection with a NNN lease of an entire property to a neighboring educational institution.
• Represented Nahla Capital, in its capacity as a mezzanine lender, in the foreclosure of the membership interests in an entity which owned a NYC condominium development and the related modification of the senior loan documents.

• Represented a syndicate of real estate investors in connection with the $12.5 million refinancing of its existing mortgage debt secured by a property located in the Upper West Side of Manhattan and consisting of a residential rental apartment building with a retail component on the ground floor.
• Represented a financial institution in connection with the origination of a $92.9 million acquisition mortgage loan secured by 190 condominium units primarily consisting of luxury residential space in a mixed-use development located in West Hollywood, California.
• Represented a full-service travel center company with the $308.2 million purchase of 20 truck stops located in multiple states. The transaction involved the negotiation of three separate transaction agreements, multiple lease amendments and property level diligence for each property.
• Represented a financial institution in connection with a mortgage loan in the maximum amount of $48.5 million, secured by an apartment complex in Mesa, Arizona. In order to accommodate an equity investment from a Kuwait-based bank, the loan was structured with a Sharia-compliant master lease.
• Represented a real estate developer in the $146 million refinance of a twelve story office building located in the heart of the District of Columbia’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood.
• Represented a real estate joint venture with an $18 million loan for the acquisition of two multifamily properties in Manhattan.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, Fordham University School of Law, magna cum laude; Ruth Whitehead Whaley Scholar; Associate Editor, Fordham International Law Journal, 2018First Talmudic Degree, Mesivta Chaim Berlin Rabbinical Academy, 2011