Jennifer A. Yashar

Jennifer Yashar represents clients on commercial real estate transactions, with a focus on sophisticated commercial leasing transactions on behalf of prominent owners, developers, financial institutions, law firms and corporations.

Jen advises many distinguished landlords, including Brookfield Properties, RXR Realty and Related Companies, with significant experience in the lease up of developments under construction. She also regularly counsels many law firms, financial institutions and other corporations on their headquarter leases, including Warner Bros. Discovery, McKinsey, Milbank, Fox and News Corp.

Jen received Connect Commercial Real Estate’s 2022 Lawyers in Real Estate Award and GlobeSt Real Estate Forum named Jen to the CRE Legal Counsel list in its 2020 “Women of Influence” special feature, which recognized remarkable women who have made a distinct mark in commercial real estate. Jennifer was also recognized in Real Estate Forum's “Fifty Under 40,” an honor that recognizes the 50 best-in-class young commercial real estate professionals, and in Real Estate Weekly’s 2018 list of “Rising Stars” in Real Estate.

Jen is the co-founder of the Firm’s “Women in Real Estate” group and takes an active role in training and mentoring upcoming attorneys.

Work Highlights

• Brookfield Properties:
  • As landlord, in the leasing of more than 2,000,000 office square feet at 200 Vesey Street, 250 Vesey Street and 225 Liberty Street in Brookfield Place (formerly World Financial Center) including leases to Bank of America, The Bank of Nova Scotia, Jones Day, The College Entrance Examination Board, The Bank of New York Mellon, Jane Street Capital and others.
  • As landlord, in connection with the lease up of One Manhattan West and Two Manhattan West to tenants including Skadden, NHL, Accenture, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, KPMG and D.E. Shaw.
  • In connection with multiple leases to Bank of America for its headquarters expansion, including a lease of all the office space consisting of approximately 340,000 square feet at 1100 Avenue of the Americas and approximately 127,000 square feet at neighboring 1114 Avenue of the Americas, both near Bank of America's current headquarters at One Bryant Park in New York City.
     
• Related Companies in its over 1.5 million-square-foot lease to Meta across 30 floors and three buildings at Hudson Yards.
   
• RXR Realty in connection with leasing Pier 57, including a 250,000-square-foot lease to Google and a 32,000-square-foot lease to City Winery at Pier 57, which includes  a 350-seat concert hall, a tasting room with Hudson River Park Views, a functioning winery, a restaurant and a loft space.
   
• Shiseido Americas in connection with its 225,000-square-foot lease at 390 Madison Avenue for its US headquarters relocation, which was  redeveloped by L&L Holding Company and Clarion Partners on behalf of the New York State Common Retirement Fund.
   
• Milbank LLP in connection with the law firm’s relocation from Downtown Manhattan to 55 Hudson Yards, where the law firm occupies 250,000 square feet.
   
• McKinsey & Company in connection with its 186,000-square-foot lease at Silverstein Properties' 3 World Trade Center for its headquarters relocation and approximately 40,000 square feet at nearby 195 Broadway. 3 World Trade Center is an 80-story, 1,079-foot-tall, 2.5 million-square-foot building that was completed in 2018.
   
• Fox Corporation and News Corp. as tenants, in connection with their lease renewals and extensions totaling more than 1.2 million square feet at 1211 Avenue of the Americas.
   
• Warner Bros. Discovery in sale and leaseback of its 1.4 million square foot condominium unit to Related, which includes studio space for its CNN, HBO and Turner Broadcasting affiliates.