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Genta Stafaj
Genta Stafaj
Senior Associate — Real Estate
E: gstafaj@velaw.com T: +1.212.237.0030
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Senior Associate — Real Estate

Genta Stafaj

Genta Stafaj
New York
T: +1.212.237.0030
F: +1.917.677.8670

The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
32nd Floor
New York, New York 10036

E: gstafaj@velaw.com
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Genta Stafaj

Genta’s practice focuses on a variety of real estate transactions, including leasing and ground leasing, joint venture agreements, acquisitions and dispositions of commercial properties, and mezzanine and mortgage financings. Genta was recognized as Ones to Watch by the New York Real Estate Journal.

Experience Highlights

  • A real estate investment company in the purchase and financing of office towers with retail and parking elements that were part of a mixed-use railroad station development complex in downtown Miami

  • A public REIT in a 99-year ground lease of property in New York City where it intends to develop a new, as-of-right, 215,000-square foot building and convey to a university a leasehold condominium

  • A public REIT in connection with a joint venture with a South Korean asset manager

  • A lawyers’ association in the sale/leaseback of its land marked headquarters building in New York City

  • An advisory firm in a lease for its headquarters office in New York City

  • A Canadian bank in a lease for its headquarters office and trading space in New York City

Credentials

  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D. 2015 (Fordham University International Law Journal)
  • Universite Pantheon-Assas, Paris II, LL.M. 2015
  • Undergraduate Barnard College, B.A. summa cum laude, 2011
  • New York
  • Albanian (fluent)

News & Insights

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