David Rabinowitz is a real estate lawyer focusing on real estate development, leasing, acquisitions and dispositions. With more than 35 years of experience, David represents property owners and tenants with complex leases involving office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use properties. He negotiates commercial real estate leases of all kinds, including full-floor and multi-floor leases for tenant headquarters, leases (domestic and foreign) flagship stores, restaurant leases, and ground leases. David also counsels developers and owners in acquisitions and dispositions (one-off and portfolio transactions), as well as commercial development, and finance matters. 

David’s widespread experience serving the retail industry prompts Chambers USA to laud him as New York retail's "key contact." He frequently represents non-U.S. retailers with their expansions into North America. He also counsels all kinds of retailers and owners in connection with the acquisition, sale and leasing of retail and mixed-use properties, lease restructurings, condominium developments (retail and mixed-use), the acquisition and sale of real estate assets (fee estates and leasehold interests in retail properties) out of bankruptcy, and counseling clients on lease issues (such as exclusives, radius restrictions, assignment/subletting and “going dark”) in anticipation of and during a lease dispute. His retail clients include some of the nation's largest “big box” retailers and shopping center developers. David is one of the first American lawyers to become an annual participant in MAPIC, a well-recognized, annual international retail property trade show in Cannes, France.

A leader within the firm, David served Goulston & Storrs in leadership roles, including as Co-Chair of the firm's Retail, Restaurant & Consumer Group and as a member of the firm's Executive Committee.