Kathleen M. Martin

Of Counsel
She/Her/Hers

Kathleen M. Martin advises clients on a broad range of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions, with a particular emphasis on commercial leasing in New York City. She represents landlords and tenants in complex lease transactions involving office, retail, industrial, warehouse, and other commercial properties. Kathleen also advises clients on transactions involving high-end residential properties. Her practice encompasses acquisitions and dispositions, acquisition financing and refinancing, sale-leasebacks, leasing, and other agreements relating to real estate.

Kathleen handles corporate real estate transactions in New York City and on a national scale. She advises private equity investors, owners and operators, lending institutions, energy companies, hotels, restaurant and supermarket chains, independent fiduciaries, real estate investment trusts (REITs), real estate developers, manufacturing companies, and family offices. Kathleen helps clients navigate complex agreements relating to the acquisition, disposition, leasing, and financing of individual properties and real estate portfolios, including bulk portfolios and multibillion-dollar financing agreements and acquisitions.

Kathleen practices in the firm’s New York and Miami offices. She previously served as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law.

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  • Advised a multinational luxury goods conglomerate in the acquisition of a sought-after retail space in East Hampton, New York
  • Advised a fiduciary representing a pension fund of a beverage conglomerate in the acquisition and subsequent sale-leaseback of numerous office buildings and industrial manufacturing plants and warehouses
  • Advised a private equity group with an acquisition and subsequent disposition of a national fast food chain  
  • Advised a national telecommunications company with the leasing of a 100,000-square-foot office in New York City
  • Advised a fiduciary representing a pension fund of a building materials and supplies company in the acquisition and subsequent sale-leaseback of several office and warehouse properties
  • Advised a private equity group in the acquisition and then subsequent sale-leaseback of an office and manufacturing property in Exeter, Rhode Island  
  • Advised a private equity group in the sale-leaseback of numerous grocery stores in California, Oregon, and Washington
  • Advised a fiduciary representing a pension fund of a national telecommunications company in the acquisition and subsequent sale-leaseback of office and warehouse properties
  • Advised a private equity group in the acquisition of a national fast food chain
  • Advised a private equity group in the acquisition of several bakeries  
  • Advised a life science client on the leasing of properties in New York
  • Advised a landlord as sole leasing counsel for four office buildings totaling approximately 1.03 million sq. ft.
  • Advised a fiduciary representing a pension fund of a national telecommunications company in the sale of eight data centers across multiple states
  • Advised a global company in connection with a 60,000 sq. ft. lease in Lower Manhattan
  • Advised an energy company in the sale of a Queens, New York property to the New York Power Authority for more than $200 million
  • Advised a developer and landlord in connection with a build-to-suit lease in Queens, New York for Starbucks
  • Advised a global technology company in connection with an 80,000 sq. ft. lease in Midtown Manhattan
  • Advised a fiduciary representing a pension fund in the management and disposition of a diverse portfolio of commercial and residential properties, including office buildings, a newspaper property, a winery, and ranchlands, in connection with the recovery of more than $20 million in pension plan losses
  • Advised a landlord in connection with the restructuring of a 200,000 sq. ft., full-building lease to a global digital sports and ecommerce company
  • Advised a buyer in connection with the acquisition of a portfolio of multifamily residential properties in New York City
  • Advised an energy company in connection with the refinancing of its energy facility in Astoria, New York
  • Advised a family private office in the sale of an office building in New York City
  • University of Miami School of Law, 1999, LL.M.
  • University of St. Thomas School of Law, Florida, 1998, J.D.
  • State University of New York at Potsdam, 1995, B.A.
  • New York
  • Florida

Member, New York Bar Association

Member, Florida Bar Association

Member, CREW - Commercial Real Estate for Women

Member, New York City Bar