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ALLEN J. POPOWITZ
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TELEPHONE: 973.403.3134
FAX: 973.618.5534
E-MAIL: apopowitz@bracheichler.com
ASSISTANT: Eleanor Gilliland
egilliland@bracheichler.com

Allen Popowitz concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial real estate and mortgage lending. He has represented residential and commercial property owners and developers, banks, mezzanine lenders, shopping centers and condominiums. Allen advises his clients on all aspects of investment real estate and lending, including sales, purchases, financing, leasing, Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 Tax Deferred Exchanges, etc.


PUBLICATIONS AND SPEECHES
Allen co-authored "Property and the Law: Protecting Purchasers from a Seller's Tax Liability," published in June 2008 on GlobeSt.com

He co-authored Improving Your Exchange: The Use of Build-to-Suit Exchanges Under Section 1031," New Jersey Law Journal, March 26, 2007.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Leading a team of Brach Eichler attorneys, paralegals and support staff in the $1.9 billion sale of a client's entire residential apartment complex portfolio, which included more than 16,700 apartment units in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. It was the largest multi-family real estate transaction in New Jersey history;

Leading a team of Brach Eichler attorneys, paralegals and support staff in the $298 million purchase of an office building in downtown Chicago. The deal included closing a $229 million first mortgage loan with an institutional lender and a mezzanine loan from a Wall Street lender. The client was using the property as replacement property in completing a Section 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange;

Leading a team of Brach Eichler attorneys and paralegals in a $260 million loan transaction involving a client's portfolio of 27 properties in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland;

A $224 million loan transaction involving a client's portfolio of 33 properties in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania;


A $200 million mezzanine loan transaction on behalf of the borrower which involved a pledge of membership interests in various entities owning property throughout numerous states;

An $18 million purchase of an office building in downtown Hartford, Connecticut; and

A $69 million acquisition of the ownership interest in an entity owning a ground lessee's interest in a commercial office park property in Palo Alto, California, which included reviewing the underlying ground lease and negotiating modifications with the ground lessor and reviewing and negotiating modifications of subleases with the sublessees.

ADDITIONAL NOTEWORTHY INFORMATION

Allen has been recognized by his peers as a New Jersey Super Lawyer 2010.

 
PRACTICE AREAS

    Real Estate, Chair
    Real Estate Tax Appeals

EDUCATION

    Princeton University,
      B.S., 1992

    Benjamin N. Cardozo
      School of Law,
      J.D., 1995

BAR & COURT ADMISSIONS

    New Jersey
    New York


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