About Samantha Hechler
Samantha Hechler represents investors, owners, developers, operators, and lenders in sophisticated commercial real estate transactions.
Her practice encompasses all phases of the commercial real estate lifecycle, including acquisitions and dispositions, development, leasing, financing, joint ventures, and condominium matters across asset classes.
She advises clients on complex deal structures involving office, mixed‑use, residential, retail, and hospitality properties, with experience representing institutional investors, developers, and lenders in large‑scale developments, high‑value leasing transactions, and construction and permanent financings.
Experience
- A New York-based commercial property owner, in connection with the restructuring of a luxury retailer’s flagship store and the redevelopment, condominiumization and sale of residential condominium units.
- A real estate investment company in the purchase and financing of the 2MC North Office and the 3MC Office, retail, and parking elements within a nine-acre mixed-use railroad station development complex in downtown Miami.
- The developer of a zero-emissions converter station in Astoria, Queens, a key component to a $6 billion renewable energy project involving the construction of a 399-mile power transmission line from the U.S.-Canada border to the conversion in NYC which will deliver clean energy throughout the city.
- An American multinational financial services company in its lease of approximately 143,000 RSF over four consecutive floors in New York, in a building which has and is undergoing $120 million modernization, as well as an agreement to dovetail the early termination of its existing lease with an affiliated land lard, with the commencement of the term under the lease.
- A New York City premier residential real estate owner and manager in connection with the refinancing of the $50 million term loan secured by the client’s fee estate in a 442 residential apartment unit complex in New York.
- A sports media company, as fee owner, in connection with a 99-year ground lease to a leading real estate investment and property services firm, the master leaseback of the property to an affiliate of the sports media company, and a sublease of the same to a higher education institution.
- A Manhattan-based REIT as tenant in a 99-year ground lease in its joint venture with a real estate fund managed by Seoul-based financial holdings company, related $125 million construction financing from Bank of China for the development of a new, as-of-right, 215,000-square foot building and conveyance to a higher education institution of a leasehold condominium.
- One of the largest county bar associations in the country, in the sale of their landmark building and their lease of space for their relocation.
- A real estate development firm, in connection with the formation of a joint venture for the development of a self-storage facility in New Jersey, including the negotiation of a ground lease for the property and the financing of the development.
- Foreign investment funds in joint venture formation and acquisitions of a noteworthy U.S. building.
- An international purchaser in the acquisition of a landmarked residence in New York City.
Bar Admissions
- New York
Education
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, JD
- Binghamton University, BA, magna cum laude
