Over the last several years, Pej has also developed experience in advising data center companies, including in connection with build-to-suit transactions, data-center leasing transactions, data-center-based securitizations and similar transactions, joint venture transactions, and acquisition and disposition transactions. In this regard, Pej’s experience on qualified opportunity zone structuring and his years’ focus on borrower- and lender-side representation in construction lending across the United States has proven particularly helpful.
Pej also routinely counsels institutional investors on real estate platform investments, including the formation and recapitalization of real estate operating companies in a variety of asset classes, including low-income housing, industrial and hospitality. Pej has also advised stakeholders on complex in- and out-of-court restructurings of distressed real estate assets (including, in the context of in-court restructurings, debtors, creditors’ committees and the like).
Pej is recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. for his work in REITs and real estate, and by IFLR1000 as a “Notable Practitioner” in real estate. He has been named to Lawdragon’s 2024 “500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers,” recognized by Super Lawyers in New York since 2021, and selected by Connect CRE in 2022 for its “Lawyers in Real Estate” award.