Overview

Eli Rubenstein, a Director, brings to his practice over 35 years of experience, focusing on corporate, international and real estate matters including corporate strategic planning, financing transactions, complex lease negotiations, real estate development matters and partnership and joint venture structuring.

Representative Experience

• Representation of a German life insurance company in a $110M joint venture investment with respect to a prominent New York office building.
• Acted as legal advisors to Eaton Vance Management in connection with the $1.6 Billion acquisition of Keystone Property Trust by a partnership of ProLogis, the largest public U.S.-based global provider of distribution facilities and services, and certain affiliates of investment funds managed by Eaton Vance Management.
• Representation of a national financial service company on the sale of the Hancock Tower and related buildings to Beacon Capital Partners.
• Acquisition of a landmark Boston office tower on behalf of a real estate investment trust.
• Acquisition of a downtown San Francisco mixed-use, office and retail development on behalf of a real estate investment trust.
• Acquisition (and, ultimately, disposition) on behalf of a Wall Street investment banking house of a portfolio of several hundred non-performing and performing loans secured by commercial real estate and multifamily assets.
• Merger, on behalf of the surviving entity, of several Boston area hospitals, to form a new healthcare network.
• Disposition of a portfolio of four regional shopping centers and a regional management company in Puerto Rico.
• Development of two new regional enclosed shopping malls in Puerto Rico.