About

Jonathan Rothstein joined the firm in 2014 and is a partner in the firm’s Real Estate and Joint Ventures/Corporate Real Estate group. 

Jonathan’s practice focuses on corporate real estate transactions, where he regularly represents private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors, sponsors, developers, managers, and operators in connection with sophisticated joint venture arrangements (including programmatic ventures). He also has substantial expertise representing clients in acquisitions, dispositions, financings, recapitalizations, and restructurings relating to all classes of commercial real estate.

Jonathan primarily represents large institutional investors in real estate, including, private equity funds and other major financial institutions and national real estate developers.

Jonathan received his J.D. from Columbia Law School and is admitted to practice in the State of New York. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Touro College in 2011, where he graduated summa cum laude and was valedictorian. 

Representative Transactions:

  • Assemblage, recap, and joint venture structuring of 23 industrial assets (including both fee and ground lease interests) across multiple U.S. States, valued at over $500 million.
  • Assemblage, financing, and eventual sale of a portfolio of manufactured housing sites across multiple U.S. States, valued at over $2 billion.
  • The acquisition, financing, and joint venture structuring (including fee and ground lease interests) of a medical office portfolio across multiple U.S. states.
  • Formation of a programmatic joint venture and obtaining of financing from multiple lenders for the development of workforce housing projects in New York City.
  • Formation of programmatic ventures for the purpose of acquiring industrial service facilities across multiple U.S. States, with initial capital commitments of over $550 million, as well as arrangement of facility financing with multiple lenders.
  • Acquisition, loan assumption, and joint venture structuring of a portfolio of office buildings in South Eastern U.S., valued at over $260 million.

Recognitions:

  • Listed, The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, Real Estate (2024 & 2025 Editions)