Samantha Karni
Brach Eichler LLC
I am a commercial real estate attorney and strive to achieve exceptional results for my clients in the most time and cost efficient manner. I focus on acquisitions, dispositions and financing of single-asset and portfolios of multifamily, retail, industrial, office, and hotel properties nationwide, sophisticated corporate and partnership documentation, and leasing of office and retail space.
Specialties: Acquisitions, dispositions, mortgage financing, mortgage refinancing, CMBS financing, preferred equity financing, defeasances, partnership and LLC agreements, corporate documentation, leasing, title and survey review, contracts, estoppels, SNDAs, easement agreements, residential purchase and sales closings.
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Easements
- Illinois
- Supreme Court of Illinois
- ID Number: 6275345
- New Jersey
- New Jersey Courts
- ID Number: 12842011
- New York
- New York State Office of Court Administration
- ID Number: 4200804
- English: Spoken, Written
- Commercial Real Estate Attorney
- Brach Eichler LLC
- - Current
- Commercial Real Estate Senior Associate
- Goldberg Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP
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- Legal Team Manager
- Innodata Isogen
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- I managed a team developing online legal database content, conducting case and statutory analysis and providing other legal writing services focused on real property and contracts for major legal publisher.
- Commercial Real Estate Senior Associate
- Dreier LLP
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- From term sheet through closing, I represented real estate developers and investors in the acquisition, financing, development, refinancing, and disposition of single-asset and portfolios of multifamily, retail, industrial, office, and hotel properties. I also counseled clients in connection with leasing of office and retail space, structuring of syndicated joint ventures, preparing sophisticated partnership and limited liability company operating agreements, and coordinating borrower corporate structuring for bankruptcy-remote purposes and rating agency approval.
- Commercial Real Estate Associate
- Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
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- I worked on all aspects of acquisitions, dispositions and financing of shopping centers and office buildings. I also assisted the corporate department in real estate aspects of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and high yield transactions.
- Commercial Real Estate Associate
- D'Ancona & Pflaum LLC
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- I assisted in the acquisition, disposition and financing of shopping malls, strip shopping centers, industrial parks, condominiums, residential developments and residential homes, including title, survey, and lease review, drafting closing documents and coordinating closings. I also represented clients in their real estate tax appeals.
- Northwestern University School of Law
- J.D. (2001)
- New York State Bar  # 4200804
- Member
- - Current