Joshua Zelkowitz is a Co-Founding Partner of Stein Adler Dabah & Zelkowitz LLP and heads the firm’s Real Estate group.

Josh advises prominent real estate owners, developers, financial institutions, institutional investors, REITs and corporations in a wide range of transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of fee, leasehold and membership interests; mortgage, mezzanine and construction financings; development projects and related development rights transfers and assemblages, commercial leasing and joint ventures.

Josh brings extensive expertise in advising leading industry players in high-stakes transactions and situations. His experience enables him to quickly evaluate and respond to a wide range of circumstances and provide tailored solutions that meet and exceed his clients’ expectations. In particular, he is adept at structuring and negotiating acquisitions, assemblages and joint venture arrangements that maximize the potential of his clients’ real estate holdings.

Josh’s transactional and real estate experience also makes him instrumental in strategically expanding his clients’ operations. He has played a lead role in more than $15 billion in acquisition and sale transactions, many of which have ranked among New York City’s largest. His recent transactions include RXR’s $800 million acquisition of 237 Park Avenue, Extell Development’s $360 million acquisition and financing and sale of a large Manhattan real estate portfolio, The Orbach Group’s $250 million acquisition of a 33-building Manhattan portfolio, and the $220 million acquisition of a Chicago officer tower by a joint venture of The World Wide Group and Cammeby’s International.

Josh earned is J.D., cum laude, from New York Law School where he was the Associate Editor for the Law Review and was a John Marshal Harlan Scholar. Prior to founding the firm, Josh was an attorney at Herrick, Feinstein LLP and Kaye Scholer LLP.

• Represented Extell Development in the $39 million acquisition of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) headquarters building at 165 East 56th Street in New York City.
• Represented Box Equities in the $41.9 million acquisition of the Legrand North America distribution center in Vandalia, Ohio.

• Represented Box Equities in the $26.7 million acquisition and financing of a multi-state portfolio of industrial properties across Florida and Georgia leased to Iron Mountain.
• Represented a joint venture between Benedict Realty Group and Harbor Group International LLC, in the $94 million acquisition and financing of ten apartment communities, totaling 1,209 units in the Orlando, Jacksonville, Daytona Beach and Pensacola markets.
• Represented Firebird Grove in the $32 million acquisition of 11 residential buildings in a gated culture-de-sac in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood.
• Represented Topaz Capital Group, a multifamily investment firm focused on the Southeast U.S., in the acquisition of three Florida properties, totaling more than 1,000 units.
• Represented Extell Development, one of New York City’s most active real estate investors, in the sale and acquisition of numerous properties.
• Represented a joint venture between Benedict Realty Group and Harbor Group International, in the $37 million acquisition of an office property in Yonkers, New York.