James C. Kennedy handles all types of real estate transactions, including leasing, purchases, sales, financing, and development. He also counsels private individuals and families, closely held entities and not-for-profit organizations, cooperative apartment corporations, and condominium associations.

Jim works with clients throughout the U.S.  His clients include specialty and high-end retailers acquiring and leasing space in shopping centers and at freestanding locations; landlords and tenants financing, acquiring, and leasing space for offices, hotels, apartment buildings, street retail locations, industrial sites, parking lots, and warehouses; and individuals, families, and closely held entities acquiring, leasing, and selling private residences and other properties.

Jim serves on the firm’s Management Committee.

• Acquired retail space for new and expanded full-line specialty department stores, in-line shops, concept boutiques, “big-box,” and outlet center stores.
• Represented a landlord in several long-term ground leases for tenant construction of Midtown Manhattan apartment houses with retail stores.
• Advised a landlord on long-term ground lease for a tenant to build offices, retail stores, and a theater at a prime Midtown Manhattan location.
• Assisted a tenant in acquiring a commercial space leasehold interest in a Manhattan cooperative apartment building for a medical facility.
• Counseled a large not-for-profit organization in connection with the long-term lease of a Manhattan building to another not-for-profit.
• Negotiated a lease of multiple floors in a Manhattan landmark building for an advertising agency.
• Handled warehouse leases at an industrial park for the landlord.
• Advised donors in conveyances of property to conservation trusts.
• Represented institutional lenders and borrowers in multi-million-dollar mortgage, mezzanine, and asset-based loans.