Joseph Brasile focuses his practice on complex commercial real estate transactions for owners, developers, institutional and private lenders, borrowers, landlords, and tenants. Joe has broad real estate financing experience with respect to permanent loans, acquisition loans, construction loans, mezzanine loans, note financings, loan sales, and underlying cooperative loans. With regard to distressed assets, Joe handles loan workouts, forbearance agreements, deed-in-lieu of foreclosure agreements, and DIP financing and loan restructuring, often collaborating with foreclosure and/or bankruptcy counsel on such matters.

For owners and developers, Joe has experience negotiating purchase and sale agreements, ground leases, sale leasebacks, office leases, retail leases, the purchase and sale of air rights, development agreements, bulk condominium sales, management contracts, parking agreements, loan documents, joint venture and partnership agreements, the placement of preferred equity, construction contracts, architect’s agreements, engineering contracts, exclusive leasing agreements, and other brokerage agreements.

Joe’s comprehensive experience representing lenders, owners, developers, and tenants encompasses all types of asset classes, including office buildings, development projects, hotels, shopping centers, retail spaces, parking garages, mixed-use projects, condominiums, multifamily buildings, and industrial properties. Clients benefit from Joe’s keen understanding of the needs and viewpoints of the various parties involved in these sophisticated transactions, as his varied practice has him regularly negotiating as a lender’s counsel, developer’s counsel, landlord’s counsel or tenant’s counsel, each of which has their own goals, needs, and tolerance for risk which are carefully and strategically implemented in close collaboration with clients.