We are pleased to announce that Alex H. Rosenthal has joined the firm’s Commercial Real Estate group as Partner. Alex brings over a decade of experience in leading sophisticated real estate transactions, combining strategic insight with seamless execution to guide complex deals from concept to close. His areas of expertise include commercial leasing, portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, and related financings spanning all asset classes, including office, retail, residential, industrial and hospitality. He excels in complex, high-value real estate deals and is a trusted advisor to institutional investors, equity sponsors, and other stakeholders in major commercial transactions across asset classes. Alex also has extensive experience in land banking transactions, helping clients lock in strategic land positions nationwide; and in data center and colocation leasing, and has played a key role in over $5 billion of related transactions.

Before joining A.Y. Strauss, Alex held positions at prestigious international and national firms, where he advised on marquee transactions including an $8 billion joint venture involving a transformative mixed-use development in New York’s Hudson Yards District, and advised a leading global investment firm on the acquisition of 1,000+ model homes across 27 states, including leaseback structuring and ongoing portfolio management. He has also represented several retail and technology startups in the negotiation of headquarters acquisitions, dispositions, sale leasebacks, ground and space leases throughout the country, serving as a trusted advisor to growing national businesses.