Peter Strauss

Select examples of Peter's prior experience include:

• Represented Uber Technologies, as tenant, in a nine-floor lease covering 405,000 rentable square feet at 3 World Trade Center, New York, New York.
• Represented RFR Realty, as landlord, in connection with the leasing of the entire building at 11 Bond Street, New York, New York to Gymshark.
• Represented StubHub, as subtenant, in connection with a sublease covering 103,000 square feet at 4 World Trade Center, New York, New York.
• Represented StubHub, as tenant, in the leasing of 44,000 square feet at 3 World Trade Center, New York, New York.
• Represented Trinity Hudson Holdings, as landlord, in a restaurant lease transaction with Flynn McGarry affecting space at 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York.
• Represented Brookfield Properties, as landlord, in connection with a lease of 91,000 square feet of office space located at 200 Liberty Street, New York, New York to Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance.
• Represented Major League Baseball, as tenant, with respect to the leasing of 400,000 rentable square feet of office space at 1271 Avenue of the Americas in New York City under a 15-year lease with the Rockefeller Group, including various expansion options.
• Represented SL Green, as landlord, in connection with a long-term lease with Bloomberg L.P., covering approximately 350,000 rentable square feet, including ten floors and ground floor space at 919 Third Avenue.
• Represented Brookfield Properties, as landlord, in a lease with Colliers International covering 60,000 square feet at The Grace Building, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, New York, entered into as part of a strategic relocation.
• Represented a financial institution, as seller, in the disposition of various office park satellite locations in the Tristate area.
• Represented the owner of 315 Hudson Street in a lease with Google covering 270,000 rentable square feet.
• Represented the New York City Economic Development Corporation on the leasing of approximately 220,000 rentable square feet of office space at 1 Liberty Plaza in New York City to serve as its headquarters.
• Represented Solow Building Corporation as the owner of 9 West 57th Street in New York City, in a $1.2 billion securitized loan and the defeasance of the existing $625 million loan, and on-going lease transactions, including recent lease transactions affecting more than 1,200,000 rentable square feet.
• Represented SL Green in a joint venture with Jeff Sutton affiliates with respect to an expansion of their leasehold at 650 Fifth Avenue in New York City at 52 Street and a simultaneous lease transaction with Nike, Inc.; the new space lease comprises the building’s entire retail component consisting of the ground and five additional floors - an area of approximately 70,000 square feet.
• Represented Jeff Sutton in a joint venture with General Growth Properties for the acquisition of Manhattan’s Crown Building at 730 Fifth Avenue for a reported $1.75 billion, setting a world record for price paid per square foot for an entire office building.
• Represented SL Green, as landlord, in a lease transaction with an affiliate of Citigroup Inc. extending Citi’s triple-net leases of its world headquarters covering 2,634,670 square feet at 388-390 Greenwich Street through December 31, 2035 (subject to further options to extend). The agreement included an option for Citi to acquire the properties. The transaction is believed to be the largest lease transaction of its type in New York City history.
• Represented United States Department of Transportation a government agency in connection with the $526 million financing of the construction of the Moynihan Train Hall Redevelopment Project in New York City, which will help transform the James A. Farley Post Office Building in Manhattan to include a modern, state-of-the-art train station and will deliver critical improvements and expansions to congestion and delays in the North East Corridor rail service.