RYAN FORMAN, OF COUNSEL

Ryan Forman focuses his practice on complex commercial real estate transactions and real estate finance matters. He represents regional and national clients, real estate investment trusts (REITs), investment funds, developers, owners and lenders in the acquisition, disposition, financing and development of multifamily, office, industrial, hospitality, student housing and other real estate assets throughout New York and the United States.

Ryan’s experience includes construction and bridge financing, portfolio acquisitions, preferred equity investments and joint ventures. He negotiates purchase and sale agreements, loan documents, ground leases, management agreements and operating agreements for real estate projects nationwide. Ryan also has experience advising clients on regulatory and compliance matters affecting rent-regulated and affordable housing in New York.

Prior to joining Sklar Kirsh, Ryan served as Of Counsel at Hersko & Ehrenreich. Previously, he was a real estate associate in the New York office of Greenberg Traurig and worked at Rosenberg & Estis.

Ryan earned his JD from Brooklyn Law School in 2018 and his BS from Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management in 2014. He is admitted to practice in New York.

Representative Matters

• Represented SCALE Lending as senior lender in a $245 million construction mortgage loan secured by a property owned by an affiliate of Terra Group for a 47-acre mixed-use, multifamily development in Miami’s Sweetwater neighborhood.
• Represented developers in $400 million and $305 million construction loans for ground-up development projects in New York City.
• Represented developers in $155 million and $97 million bridge loans for completed development projects.
• Represented a publicly traded hospitality group in its $800 million acquisition of a Texas resort.
• Represented a large international hotel owner and operator in its $400 million acquisition of a historic hotel property in Boston.
• Represented an international student housing provider in the acquisition and financing of a portfolio spanning 14 states, with an aggregate transaction value exceeding $400 million.

Memberships

• Kings County Inns of Court
• Kings County Bar Association
• Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association