Thomas E. Kass

Commercial Real Estate Law

Thomas E. Kass is a partner at Kantor, Davidoff, Wolfe, Mandelker, Twomey & Gallanty, P.C. Mr. Kass has been practicing law for over twenty-five years. He has represented a variety of buyers and sellers of commercial real estate throughout the United States and has handled a broad cross section of real estate transactions. He spent four years exclusively representing commercial savings banks in connection with commercial mortgages on office and commercial buildings, shopping strips and malls, residential apartment buildings and co-operative apartment buildings. In connection with such financings, he has also handled participation and loan sales agreements for commercial lenders.

Mr. Kass represented foreign investors purchasing United States real estate. He was instrumental in developing the first-ever convertible mortgage, which converted a lender’s interest from debt to equity, for a Japanese insurance company in connection with a $100 million investment in a New York City office tower. He also was an instrumental member of a legal team representing a Dutch investor’s $600 million purchase of an office building in New York and ground lease and master lease positions in two office buildings in Chicago. Mr. Kass can be reached at (212) 682-8383 ext. 25, or by email at tkass@kantorlawonline.com.

His law firm’s website is www.kantordavidoff.com.