
Naheem J. Harris

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

Naheem’s practice focuses on a wide range of real estate matters, such as financing, real estate development, partnerships and joint ventures, investment sales and acquisitions and leasing matters.
Experience Highlights
The Georgetown Company in the leasehold/tenant improvement financing secured by the lease of 787 11th Avenue
A developer in the acquisition of a 280 unit multifamily development in Atlanta, Georgia and the related $90 million acquisition financing
A national bank in the origination of a $196 million mortgage secured by a first-class office building in West Hollywood, California. Representation also included (i) a post-closing note split into a Note A (for CMBS execution) and Note B, and (ii) the sale of Note B to an institutional lender.
A special servicer in the workout of a $75 million mortgage and mezzanine loan secured by a shopping center in Los Angeles, California
WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust in its $370 million contribution of its U.S. distribution and logistics properties to a joint venture with the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario
Jera Asset Management and Setzer Properties in the formation of a joint venture with the Australian Superannuation Pension Fund, including the roll-up of a seed portfolio of net leased trucking terminal and logistics properties valued at approximately $500 million into the joint venture
A hedge fund in a joint venture to acquire an $30 million office park in the suburbs of Miami, Florida
The Georgetown Company in the leasehold/tenant improvement financing secured by the lease of 787 11th Avenue
A developer in the acquisition of a 280 unit multifamily development in Atlanta, Georgia and the related $90 million acquisition financing
A developer in the acquisition of a 400 unit multifamily development in Atlanta, Georgia and the related $150 million acquisition financing
A developer in the acquisition of a 262 unit multifamily development in Atlanta, Georgia and the related $57 million acquisition financing
A developer in the acquisition of a 268 unit multifamily development in Nashville, Tennessee and the related $62.1 million acquisition financing
A developer in the $45 million refinancing of a loan secured by an office building in San Jose, California
A developer in the acquisition of a 387 unit multifamily development in Miami, Florida and the related $121.3 million acquisition financing
A developer in the acquisition of a 639 unit multifamily development in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the related $142 million acquisition financing and $60 million preferred equity investment
A national bank in the origination of a $196 million mortgage secured by a first-class office building in West Hollywood, California. Representation also included (i) a post-closing note split into a Note A (for CMBS execution) and Note B, and (ii) the sale of Note B to an institutional lender.
A special servicer in the workout of a $75 million mortgage and mezzanine loan secured by a shopping center in Los Angeles, California
A real estate investment trust in the purchase and financing of a hotel portfolio consisting of fifty (50) branded hotels
A publicly traded company in the leasing of Class A office space in New York, New York
A national bank in the origination of (i) a $427 million mortgage secured by a portfolio of seventeen (17) branded hotels located throughout the country (for CMBS execution as a single asset securitization), which included representing the lender until the closing of the securitization transaction) and (ii) a $365 million mortgage secured by a portfolio of five (5) branded hotels located throughout the country, which included the defeasance of then-existing debt and the assignment of a note held by a municipality to the lender
A national bank in the origination of a $110 million mortgage secured by a partial fee and partial leasehold interest in a first-class mixed use building in San Francisco, California; Representation included the post-closing origination of mezzanine debt in connection with the pay-down of the mortgage debt and the sale of the mezzanine debt to an insurance company
A national bank in the purchase of a $15 million mortgage note for CMBS execution secured by a branded hotel located in Nashville, Tennessee
WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust in its $370 million contribution of its U.S. distribution and logistics properties to a joint venture with the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario
Jera Asset Management and Setzer Properties in the formation of a joint venture with the Australian Superannuation Pension Fund, including the roll-up of a seed portfolio of net leased trucking terminal and logistics properties valued at approximately $500 million into the joint venture
A hedge fund in a joint venture to acquire an $30 million office park in the suburbs of Miami, Florida
A hedge fund in a joint venture to develop a 210 unit senior living facility in Central Texas
A hedge fund in a joint venture to acquire an $81 million office park in Palm Springs, Florida
A developer in the sale of a majority interest in entities owning multifamily developments in Nashville, Tennessee and Fort Lauderdale, Florida
A developer in a joint venture to develop a 400 unit multifamily development in Miami, Florida
Credentials
- Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 2013
- University of Pennsylvania, 2008
- Selected to the New York Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2022
- New York
- Rankings & AwardsMarch 29, 2022
- Press ReleaseJanuary 11, 2022
- Deals & CasesJune 14, 2021
- Deals & CasesMarch 29, 2021
- Deals & CasesMarch 11, 2021
- Deals & CasesMarch 4, 2021
- Deals & CasesFebruary 17, 2021