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Julian Wise is a Co-Managing Partner of the firm’s New York offices. Julian is a nationally recognized real estate lawyer who represents institutional and non-institutional lenders, owners/operators, and investors in a broad range of commercial real estate transactions.
Julian’s representations include:
- On the lender side – structuring and negotiation of senior and multi-tranched mezzanine financings, intercreditor agreements, co-lender and participation agreements, and loan portfolio acquisitions and dispositions and restructurings
- On the owner/operator side – acquisitions, dispositions, and multi-trenched financings of office, retail, hotel, and multifamily properties, joint venture, and preferred equity agreements
His clients include private equity firms, major financial and commercial lending institutions and developers and owners of commercial, industrial, retail, office, hotel and large-scale residential properties.
Julian has represented clients in some of the most high-profile real estate transactions, including, among others:
- A major national retail grocery chain in connection with its $2 billion financing of approximately 400 grocery stores and distribution centers in 14 states
- A major private equity firm in connection with its multibillion-dollar acquisition of retail properties across the United States
- Several major private equity firms in over $5 billion in senior and mezzanine financings across the United States
- A private equity firm on its acquisition of AT&T’s Yellow Pages (a transaction that was secured by real estate and other assets located across the United States)
- A real estate fund in the acquisition and subsequent disposition of trophy buildings across the United States, including the Gucci Building located on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California
- A major private equity firm in the acquisition, financing and disposition of the Innkeepers hotel portfolio
Julian has a reputation among his peers and clients as a terrific negotiator and an excellent strategist. He is consistently recognized as one of the country’s leading real estate lawyers by Chambers USA, The Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America, The Legal 500 US (listings of the top lawyers in the United States) and New York Super Lawyers. Chambers USA describes Julian as offering “a wealth of expertise across the real estate spectrum,” “creative,” “solution-oriented,” “very practical, very thoughtful and very thorough” and as being “highly commended” for his “extensive lending experience.” The Legal 500 US includes the following words of praise from a major investment banking client: “An awesome attorney – my first choice on all deals.”
Julian is a prolific writer, publishing numerous articles in the New York Law Journal and a variety of other publications, including the “Commercial Real Estate” chapter of Business and Commercial Litigation in the Federal Courts (Thomson Reuters, Fourth Edition).
He is also a sought-after and active speaker at industry conferences on a wide array of topics, including real estate private equity, restructurings, financings, distressed debt and industry trends.
Auszeichnungen
- Selected as a leading real estate lawyer by:
- Chambers USA, 2013 – 2025
- The Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America
- The Legal 500 US
- New York Super Lawyers, 2010 – 2025
- Named to Real Estate Forum’s “Deals & Dealmakers” and “Financial Influencers” list
Mitgliedschaften
- American Bar Association
- New York City Bar Association
Qualifikation
Education
Fordham University School of Law, JD
Emory University, BA, Honor Council
Admissions
New York
