Andrew J. Ebersbach

Andrew Ebersbach advises firm clients on a wide variety of matters, including complex joint venture and restructuring transactions, private equity investments, real estate fund formation, and acquisitions and dispositions of real estate assets.

Private equity funds, financial institutions, developers, and owners and operators of real estate seek Andrew’s experience in sophisticated joint venture and other complex corporate real estate structures and transactions. 

Andrew regularly guest lectures at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation on corporate structuring and joint ventures.

Work Highlights

• Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel's Founder and CEO, in connection with certain options to purchase a 60% interest in a joint venture with Vornado Realty Trust and Rudin Management Company to own and develop a new 1.7 million-square-foot trophy office tower at the site comprised of 350 Park Avenue, 40 East 52nd Street and 39 East 51st Street (valuing the site at $1.2 billion), or to buy the site outright for $1.4 billion.
   
• Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) in formation of a joint venture with Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. to acquire seven of COPT’s existing single-tenant data center shell properties, which contain 1.2 million square feet of warehouse space, for a total value of approximately $265 million.
   
• Crow Holdings Capital in connection with the sale of a 49% in, and a joint venture for, a portfolio of 19 industrial properties in the United States to Allianz Real Estate.
   
• The Moinian Group in connection with its acquisition of the remaining ownership interest in 3 Columbus Circle from SL Green Realty Corp., which had owned 48.9% of the property, for approximately $233 million.
   
• Madison International Realty in the purchase of an 80% interest in a joint venture with DDR Corp. (now known as SITE Centers Corp.) which owned 52 shopping centers, valued at over $1 billion in total.