Martin D. Polevoy

Martin D. Polevoy

Senior Counselor
About

Martin Polevoy's practice includes all areas of real estate, including acquisitions and dispositions, development, leasing, financing, joint ventures, construction contracts, restructuring and workouts. He represents many well-known national and international owners, developers, investors and financial institutions, as well as European and Asian investors, in both debt and equity transactions in the United States.

Martin's practice includes representing: the developers of the 1.7 million-square foot headquarters building for The New York Times Company in Manhattan; Greenland Group (Shanghai) in the purchase of a 70% interest in the 4.9 billion dollar Atlantic Yards Project in Brooklyn, New York; L'Oreal USA, Inc. in their 400,000 square foot headquarters lease at the Hudson Yards development project in Manhattan; representing General Motors in the relocation of their New York headquarters and their Cadillac Division from Detroit to New York City; the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the redevelopment of the World Trade Center; a major investment bank in over 2 million square feet of leasing transactions and the acquisition of its Manhattan headquarters building; acquisition of over 4 million square feet of first-class office buildings for a prominent German open-end real estate fund; developers of mixed use condominium projects in New York City; and serving as national real estate counsel for one of the largest real estate funds in the United States, and representing Asian and European investors and developers and institutional lenders in the US, including Greenland Holding Group (Shanghai), China Construction Bank, Phoenix Property Investors (Hong Kong), China Construction America, Inc., Reignwood Group (Beijing/London) and UCF Capital Ltd. (Hong Kong), and Commerzreal (Germany) and Allianz Global Investors US LLC.

In addition, he has been a frequent participant, as program chair and as a speaker and panelist, in continuing legal education programs of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the Practicing Law Institute, Georgetown University Law Center and the Anglo-American Real Estate Institute. He has also written extensively on various aspects of real estate law.

Bar admissionsNew York
CourtsUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New YorkUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

EXPERIENCE

Martin's practice includes: 

  • Representing the development of a 1.7 million square foot headquarters building for The New York Times Company in Manhattan
  • Representing L'Oreal USA, Inc. in their new 400,000 square foot headquarters lease at the Hudson Yards development project in Manhattan
  • Representing General Motors in the relocation of their New York headquarters and the relocation of their Cadillac Division from Detroit to New York City
  • Representing a major investment bank in over two million square feet of leasing transactions and the acquisition of its Manhattan headquarters building
  • Acquisition of over four million square feet of first-class office buildings for a prominent German open-end real estate fund
  • Representing an infrastructure, construction and transport organization in the redevelopment of the World Trade Center
  • Serving as national real estate counsel for one of the largest real estate funds in the United States
  • Representing Asian investors and developers in the US, including Greenland Holding Group, China Construction America, Inc., Phoenix Property Investors, Reignwood Group and UCF Capital Ltd.
Education
  • LL.B., University of Pennsylvania
  • A.B., Colgate University
    cum laude

Awards

  • Chambers USA
    • Senior Statesperson, New York Real Estate: Mainly Dirt (2023)
    • Band 2, New York Real Estate: Mainly Dirt (2019-2022)
    • Band 2, New York Real Estate (2012-2018)
  • The Legal 500 United States
    • Recommended, Real Estate (2015) 
  • Recommended by the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook (2009)
  • The International Who's Who of Real Estate Lawyers and the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers have named Martin one of the 12 leading real estate lawyers in the world
  • Named in the Guide to the World's Leading Real Estate Lawyers as an expert in real estate law
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America
  • Repeatedly named a New York Super Lawyer
  • Named among the Lawdragon 500 Dealmakers in America (2007)
  • Real Estate Weekly, the leading real estate newspaper for the New York metropolitan area, named Martin to its list of "All Stars in Real Estate" (2008) 

Insight Overview

Martin has been a frequent participant, as program chair and as a speaker and panelist, in continuing legal education programs of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the Practicing Law Institute, Georgetown University Law Center and the Anglo-American Real Estate Institute. 

Martin has also written extensively on various aspects of real estate law.

Media Mentions

Memberships And Affiliations

  • American Bar Association
  • American College of Real Estate Lawyers, former Member of Board of Governors
  • Anglo-American Real Property Institute
  • Association of the Bar of the City of New York
  • New York State Bar Association
  • AFIRE-Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate
  • The Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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