Jeffrey R. Keitelman practices in all areas of commercial real estate law. He represents local, national, and international owners, users, lenders, managers, and brokers in acquisition/disposition, leasing, development, financing, property management, and related matters involving urban office buildings, suburban office and industrial parks, shopping centers, headquarters facilities, and mixed use developments. He also has experience with counseling clients in connection with real estate-related litigation and bankruptcy matters, as well as with public/private partnership and government-related transactions.

Mr. Keitelman represents Fortune 500 companies, pension fund investors, REITs, life insurance companies, financial institutions, asset advisors, law firms, developers, governmental entities, nonprofit and educational institutions, trade associations, and numerous other clients in sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. He has been the lead lawyer on many of the largest and most high profile transactions in the Washington, D.C. area and in the country. He also heads the firm’s Government Real Estate team.

Representative matters include being lead lawyer on the representation of:

• The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in connection with the ongoing redevelopment of the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan in New York;
• A worldwide real estate investment company on the sale of a 17-building, multi-state office portfolio and the acquisition of a different $750 million Washington, D.C. office portfolio;
• A national private REIT on major acquisitions in major markets across the country;
• Numerous owners of Class A office buildings on significant leases with major national firms and retailers, including five of the top 25 major lease deals in 2005;
• Several Fortune 500 companies on headquarters relocations and build-to-suit development transactions, as well as ongoing real estate needs at various worldwide satellite locations;
• A national lender with its conduit loan program throughout the mid-Atlantic region;
• The owner of a 450,000 square foot office complex in its initial and rapid lease-up; and
• The District of Columbia government in connection with the redevelopment of the Southeast Waterfront area of Washington, D.C.; and
• Numerous owners with respect to government leasing activities, including the landlord/debtor-in-possession of an Arlington, Virginia office complex in a 540,000 square foot lease with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for its headquarters facility.

Mr. Keitelman has received numerous recognitions and accolades. Based on peer reviews, he has been listed in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the real estate category. The respected English research publisher Chambers & Partners names him in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, calling him "knowledgeable and experienced.” He is also named in the 2008 Guide to the World's Leading Real Estate. He has been selected as a leading lawyer in PLC’s Global Counsel Handbook of Corporate Real Estate. Mr. Keitelman also is listed in the Real Estate Expert Guide as one of the world's leading real estate lawyers; in An International Who's Who of Real Estate Lawyers; in the Marquis Who's Who in America; and in other Who’s Who publications. In 2006, The Washington Business Journal named him a Top Washington Lawyer for Real Estate. In 2007, Washington SmartCEO named him among its Legal Elite, and in 2008 he was recognized by The Legal 500.

Mr. Keitelman has received such honors as W-USA TV's One & Only 9 Award; Leadership Washington's Distinguished Leadership Award; the Washington's Business Journal's 40 Under 40 Award; and Brown University's John Hope Alumni Award for Community Service. He also has been selected to serve on the editorial board of CoreNet Global's Corporate Real Estate Leader magazine and on the editorial advisory board of Corporate Perspectives of the Real Estate Forum magazine.

Mr. Keitelman is a member of the firm's Policy Committee.

Admissions

• Connecticut
• District of Columbia

Memberships

• D.C. Preservation League
• The Real Estate Group of Washington, D.C.
• CoreNet Global (IDRC/NACORE)
• Federal Real Property Association (FRPA)
• Urban Land Institute (ULI)
• D.C. Building Industry Association (DCBIA)
• Apartment and Office Building Association (AOBA)
• Greater Washington Board of Trade
• Leadership Washington (Class of 1991)
• D.C. Preservation League
• District of Columbia Bar Association
• Connecticut State Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• American Bar Association (Real Property and Law Commercial Law sections)
• Editorial Board of the Corporate Real Estate Leader magazine
• Editorial Advisory Board of Corporate Perspectives of the Real Estate Forum magazine

Publications

• Co-author, "Brush Up on Security Guidelines Before Leasing to GSA Tenants," Real Estate Forum (October 2005)
• Participant, The Leader, CoreNet Global Magazine, Group Interview of Leaders in Corporate Real Estate (September, 2005)
• Author, "Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Ushers in New Era of Opportunity," Corporate Real Estate Leader (May 2004)
• Author, "Creative Disposition Strategies: The Art of Two Deals," CoreNews, the bi-monthly magazine for Mid-Atlantic Chapter of CoreNet Global's Corporate Real Estate Network (November 2003)
• Contributing author, "Lease Negotiation Handbook," The American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) Committee on Continuing Professional Education, in cooperation with the International Association of Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate (AECRE) (November 2003)
• Co-author, "Increasing Security," Legal Times, Vol. XXIV, No. 40 (October 8, 2001)

Seminars

• Federal Security Standards: Which One does the Tenant Want?" Presentation to The Maryland/DC Chapter of NAIOP (February 16, 2006)
  

• "Negotiating Operating Expense Clauses and Enforcement by Lease Audits," The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of CoreNet Global (October 14, 2005)
  

• "Acquisition Strategies and Leasing/Property Management Issues," Wells Real Estate Funds (March 29-30, 2005)
  

• "Leasing and Negotiating Trends," Jones Lang LaSalle Americas Annual Meeting (March 16, 2005)
  

• "Legal Aspects of Government Leasing (or) What Gives Landlord's Heartburn?", Annual Conference of the Federal Real Property Association in Washington, D.C. (October 27, 2004)
  

• "Government Leases - Doing Deals with GSA Tenants," CLE International in Washington, D.C. (June 7-8, 2004)
  

• "Government Leasing and Compliance," Equity Office Properties in Chicago (October 16, 2003)
  

• “GSA Leasing Issues,” RealShare DC Conference, Washington, D.C. (Fall 2003)
  

Prior Experience

• Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group (Boston)

Civic and Charitable

• Founder, Greater D.C. Cares, Inc.
• Founding member, City Cares of America, Inc.
• Founding member, Youth Leadership of Metropolitan Washington, Inc.
• Board Member, Greater Washington Urban League, Inc.
• Past Chair and Trustee, Lowell School
• Past member, D.C. Workforce Investment Council
• Past member, D.C. Commission for National and Community Service
• Past member, Mayor's Advisory Committee on Volunteerism and Youth
• Past member, Mayor's Advisory Council on Community Service
• Past member, Community Advisory Board, Junior League of Washington