• Andrew Charles has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial real estate law, including partnerships and joint ventures, financing for borrowers and lenders, acquisitions and sales, and development and leasing. His client base includes private equity funds, financial institutions, developers, and operators in the acquisition, financing, development, sale and leasing of all classes of commercial properties including office, hotel, multifamily, retail, public storage, mixed use and condominium properties. Andrew focuses mainly on structuring transactions for institutional investors and opportunity funds such as joint ventures, preferred equity investments, mezzanine financing and mixed debt/equity investments.

    Experience

    • Represented Mitsui Fudosan America, Inc. in entering in to a joint venture with Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group for the acquisition and development of 55 Hudson Yards, located at the intersection of Hudson Yards, the High Line and Hudson and Park Boulevard, New York City.

    • Represented Mitsui Fudosan America Inc. in connection with entering into a joint venture with Taconic Investment Partners for the purpose of acquiring, financing and developing a mixed-use development consisting of 466,000 square feet for 392 residential units and approximately 30,000 square feet of retail space located at 525 West 52nd St.

    • Represented Morgan Stanley Prime Property Fund in connection with the sale of the Marriott Eastside Hotel in New York City to Ashkenazy Acquisitions.

    • Represented Post Properties Inc. in connection with the sale of two residential buildings in New York City, the Post Toscana (389 East 89th St.) and the Post Luminaria (385 First Ave.), to Magnum Real Estate Group.

    • Represented Mitsui Fudosan America Inc. in the acquisition of a membership interest in a joint venture comprising DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners and J.D. Carlisle Development, for development of a 318-unit residential rental building with supporting retail on Madison Avenue in New York City.

    • Represented Lighthouse Opportunity Fund LLC in its acquisition of a portfolio of 30 residential apartment buildings located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, for an aggregate purchase price of $250 million.

    • Represented Credit Suisse Real Estate Fund International Holding AG in its acquisition of a multitenanted office building from MM Properties located at 919 Milam St., Houston.

    • Represented Union Real Estate Investment GmbH inits acquisition of 555 Mission St., an iconic Class-A office tower located in the San Francisco Financial District, from Tishman Speyer, who developed the property.

    • Represented Credit Suisse Real Estate Fund International Holding AG inits acquisition of a multi-tenanted office building located at 250 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois, from an affiliate of AEW Capital Management, LP.

    • Represented REF Global Holding AG, a fund affiliated with Credit Suisse in connection with its acquisition of a multitenanted office building located at 777 Post Oak Blvd., Houston.

    • Represented Mitsui Fudosan America Inc. in connection with the sale of the multitenanted office building located at 100 William St., New York City, to affiliates of John Hancock Life Insurance Company (USA).

    • Represented Mitsui Fudosan America, Inc. in its acquisition of a 95 percent membership interest in the owner of a development site located at 1200 17th St., Washington, DC, and the subsequent development of an office building on the site.

    • Represented a joint venture of Berkshire Realty Ventures and Lodging Capital Partners in connection with entering into a joint venture with a wholly owned affiliate of Lubert-Adler Real Estate Funds for the acquisition of multiple hotel properties in the United States.

    • Represented Mitsui Fudosan America Inc. in its acquisition of an 80 percent controlling partnership interest in the ground lease of the Homer Building, a Class-A office building located three blocks from the White House, and contemporaneously with the acquisition, Mitsui closed on a $158 million refinancing of the partnership’s interest in the ground lease.

    • Represented Berkshire Realty Ventures in connection with a programmatic joint venture with LCB Senior Living for the acquisition, development and management of senior living housing facilities in the Northeast United States.

    Credentials

    Education

    • J.D., cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center, 1986
    • B.A., magna cum laude, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1983

    Bar Admissions

    • New York