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Paul Polking

Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Paul Polking is a partner in Proskauer’s Real Estate Department. His practice includes the negotiating, structuring and documenting of real estate transactions, including commercial and retail leases and subleases, on behalf of both landlords and tenants. Additionally, Paul handles the purchase and sale of commercial and residential properties, and financings of various sizes, including construction financings, acquisition financings and refinancings.
Paul’s experience includes handling matters such as:
- Purchases and dispositions of marquee assets by developers, financial services firms, banks and REITS
- Joint ventures for the development of commercial and residential projects
- Property management and development advisor agreements
- Lending transactions, representing financial institutions
- Commercial property workouts and the modification of loans and mortgages
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
Advising on a range of matters that include leases, financings, joint ventures, and restructurings, Proskauer Rose LLP is praised by clients for its ‘high quality thinking and legal work’, regularly acting for large investors, operators, and developers, with experience on all sides of transactions. The real estate department is led by Keith Barnett and Ronald Sernau, the first of which is based in Boston and the latter in New York. In Boston, Sean Boulger is particularly knowledgeable in life sciences and senior housing along with a range of real estate transactions, with Katelyn O’Brien regularly advising on financings, developments, acquisitions, and dispositions. Active across a wide range of geographies and asset classes, the firm also stands out for its hospitality, leisure and gaming group for which New York partner Robert Shmalo is a key member. Also in New York is Paul Polking, who has experience representing landlords and tenants on a range of transactions and deal structuring mandates, and commercial and retail leases and subleases.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending