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Karen F. Candreva

Karen F. Candreva
November 11, 2011
  • Partner
  • New York, NY
212.484.3953
karen.candreva@arentfox.com

Karen is a partner in the business department and focuses on commercial real estate transactions. She has extensive experience representing developers and equity investors in the acquisition, development, leasing, and sale of real estate assets in the greater New York City metropolitan area and throughout the United States.

Client Work

Karen has represented real estate investment trusts, investment banks, private equity funds, and family-owned investment companies on billions of dollars of real estate transactions and ventures. She has represented landlords and tenants on leasing deals aggregating over a million square feet of rental space. In addition, Karen has represented clients in an assortment of highly sophisticated deals, including multistate portfolio transactions, complex fee above-a-plane, and condominium structures.

Publications, Presentations and Recognitions

Karen lectured at the seminar titled “Cross-Border Sales and Purchases of Real Estate” at Arent Fox on May 26, 2005.

Her published articles include:

  • “The Write Way To Succeed,” Legal Times; October 3, 2005 (Vol. XXVIII, No. 40)
  • “Navigating in the Suspended World of Fee Above-a-Plane Transactions,” New York Law Journal; June 21, 2004

Karen’s recognitions include:

  • AV Preeminent Rating – Highest Possible Rating in Both Legal Ability and Ethical Standards (Martindale Hubble), 2005-2012
  • Women’s AV Preeminent Attorneys (Martindale Hubble), 2012
  • Top Attorneys in New York Metro Area (Super Lawyers magazine), 2008-2012
  • Top Women Attorneys in New York Metro Area (New York Times magazine), 2012
  • Legal Elite, New York City’s Top Women Attorneys (Avenue magazine), 2011
  • Top Women Lawyers in the Northeast (Arrive magazine), 2011
  • America’s Most Honored Professionals – Top 5% (American Registry), 2011
  • Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers (Martindale Hubble), 2011
  • Legal Elite, New York City’s Top Real Estate, Bankruptcy, and Trust and Estates Attorneys (Avenue magazine), 2010
  • 5-Year AV Preeminent Rating Honor 2005-2010 (Martindale Hubble)
  • Women of Influence (published in Real Estate New York), 2008
  • Burton Award for Legal Achievement, 2005 and 2006

Bar and Court Admissions

  • Connecticut Bar
  • District of Columbia Bar
  • Maryland Bar
  • New York Bar
  • Supreme Court of the United States

Education

The George Washington University Law School
, JD
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
, BS

Practices

  • Real Estate

Areas of Focus

  • Development
  • Entity Restructuring / Preferred Equity
  • Leasing
  • Mixed-Use Development
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