Alex H. Rosenthal is a partner in A.Y. Strauss’ Real Estate group. 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 co-location 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. His experience leading multidisciplinary deal teams and mentoring junior attorneys reflects his deep commitment to both excellence and collaboration.

Alex is a thought leader in the industry, and has spoken and written on various commercial real estate topics, including key issues in joint ventures, land banking strategies, and business tenants’ concerns in today’s leasing environment. In 2024, Super Lawyers® ranked Alex on their New York Metro Rising Stars list.

Deeply invested in the firm’s growth and future, and laser-focused on the rapport and trust he builds with his clients, Alex is a rising leader in the real estate industry, championing the firm’s culture of reliability, innovation, and integrity.

Representative Matters

• Advised a leading global investment firm on the acquisition of 1,000+ model homes across 27 states, including leaseback structuring and ongoing portfolio management.
• Represented a hedge fund-backed, quantitative-driven real estate firm in connection with the acquisition and financing of a portfolio of large manufactured housing parks in Texas, Alabama and Georgia.
• Represented a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in the acquisition of a new research and development facility.
• Represented the nation’s leader in public/private community development in connection with various transactions amending and expanding its operative documents relating to the leasing, acquisition, development, and financing of housing units on dozens of Army bases around the United States.
• Represented a sovereign wealth fund in connection with its $8 billion joint venture with Brookfield for the development of Manhattan West, a project that includes 7 million square feet of office space in three buildings, and residential, hotel, retail and open space spanning five acres in the Hudson Yards District.
• Represented a national quality sheets and bedding accessory company in the negotiation of both retail and office leases including locations in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Brooklyn, Santa Monica, Portland, and Washington, D.C.
• Represented private placement note-holders and designated lenders in connection with real estate matters related to the financing of the $2.8 billion acquisition of Skyway Concession Company, which operates, manages and maintains the Chicago Skyway toll road under a 99-year lease pursuant to a public-private partnership with the City of Chicago.
• Represented a major U.S. financial institution as administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with $750 million in senior unsecured bridge financing commitments for REIT Government Properties Income Trust’s acquisition of First Potomac Realty Trust in a $1.4 billion transaction.
• Represented Thailand’s leading global chemical company, Indorama Ventures (IVL), in connection with the real estate components of its $2.1 billion acquisition of Huntsman’s chemicals units.
• Represented a prominent real estate fund manager in connection with all facets of its New York City property-related asset management matters, including retail leases, parking leases and office leases, sales and property management agreements.

Publications/Presentations

• Real Estate Joint Ventures & Promote Crystallization: Mechanics, Presented by Strafford, October 31, 2023, (webinar)
• Environmental Justice Implications for Brownfield Redevelopment, Brownfield Coalition of the Northeast – Northeast Sustainable Communities Workshop, September 13, 2022
• What Does A Business Tenant Really Care About?, National Law Institute CLE, October 13, 2022
• Contraction Rights in NYC Commercial Leasing: Surveying the Post-COVID Landscape, Law360, August, 2022
• Why the Federal Government Should Act to Create a New Action Insurance Program, National Real Estate Investor, June 2020
• Associate Editor, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law

Honors, Awards, & Recognitions

• Super Lawyers® Rising Stars: Real Estate, 2024

Professional and Civic Activities

• New York State Bar Association, Member
• New Jersey State Bar Association, Member
• New York City Bar, Member
• Real Estate Board of New York, Member
• Commercial Real Estate Finance Counsel, Member