Mr. Kasindorf is a highly accomplished transactional lawyer specializing in sophisticated real estate and investment ventures in New York City and throughout the United States. He counsels clients in the formation, syndication, acquisition, financing, development, sale and leasing of all real estate asset classes. With degrees in Accounting and a Master of Laws in Taxation (LLM) from New York University, Mr. Kasindorf has over 27 years of experience in crafting joint ventures and other strategic partnerships with particular emphasis on taxation and finance issues.
Mr. Kasindorf is the chair of the firm's prolific 11-person Real Estate department. He has expertise in a broad array of transactions including single asset and portfolio real estate acquisitions and sales, sophisticated financing transactions including securitized mortgages, multi-tranche mezzanine loans and preferred equity transactions, new construction, ground lease negotiation and development, office, industrial and retail leasing for both landlords and tenants, workouts and foreclosures, co-op and condominium development and conversions and zoning matters. Mr. Kasindorf has been named a "New York Super Lawyer".
Over the past 8 years, Mr. Kasindorf has emerged as one of the most popular Adjunct Associate Professors in NYU's Schack Institute of Real Estate where he has earned the prestigious "Award for Teaching Excellence". He is considered such a dynamic advisor that he is invited to be a regular instructor at NYU's Real Estate Development and Asset Management Institutes, catering to the most serious investors and real estate professionals from the U.S. and around the world. He has also been selected to be a member of the Schack Institute Advisory Board and is the faculty advisor to the Real Estate Institute Student Association where he helps coordinate extra-curricular programming and conducts his very popular "Institute of Entrepreneurship". He has also lectured on real estate and tax matters at New York University School of Continuing Education, The New School, Lorman Education Services, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Real Estate Board of New York.
To help foster his broad contacts with international clients, Mr. Kasindorf is also a member of Consulegis, a global network of commercial law firms.
Mr. Kasindorf is the current Green Chairman and former President of Tam O'Shanter Country Club in Brookville, New York and lives in Jericho, New York with his wife, Susan and two daughters Amanda, a University of Miami graduate and Erica, a senior at Vanderbilt University.