Jared  E.  Kriwinsky

Jared E. Kriwinsky

Managing Associate

Overview

Jared represents property buyers, sellers, investors and developers in real property acquisitions and dispositions, development matters, and finance, leasing and sale-leaseback transactions.

Experienced across commercial property asset classes, Jared excels in negotiating and closing multilayered, large-scale and complex real estate deals. He regularly closes acquisitions and dispositions of shopping centers, industrial properties, multifamily housing (including affordable housing projects), office buildings, and mixed-use developments across the nation.  

Clients appreciate Jared’s responsiveness and ability to understand the parties’ perspectives and concerns, avoid contention, and find solutions that protect their interests and get deals done.

Currently, Jared is engaged in a part-time secondment at Blackstone subsidiary LivCor. Working closely with its executives and management team, he is focused on handling the company’s property dispositions.

Key Representative Matters:

  • Represents a leading real estate investment trust in the acquisition of properties across the country.  
  • Represents a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of hundreds of properties located across the country numbering in the hundreds of millions of dollars, which are then leased back to industrial/retail tenants. 
  • Represented a publicly traded REIT in the sale of former Sears and K-Marts across the country, which sales were for over a billion dollars cumulatively.
  • Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of over fifty retail locations across two states in a more than $100 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.
  • Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of an affordable housing property in Texas, which involved collapsing a ground lease structure to sell fee title to the property, negotiating equity contributions to fund closing contributions by the partnership of the property-owning partnership and the defeasance and later redemption of bond financing.
  • Represents an NYSE-listed REIT in the sale and purchase of industrial/retail properties across the country.

Experience

Credentials

Education

The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, 2019, J.D.
  • Ohio State Law Journal, Staff Editor; Events Editor
  • Student Bar Association, President; 1L Orientation Leader
  • Public Interest Law Foundation, Vice President of Auction Operations
  • Civil Rights and Liberties National Moot Court Competition
  • cum laude
  • Michael E. Moritz Leadership Award Recipient
  • The Arthur James Seelye Small Business Law Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit Recipient
  • CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Criminal Law and Appellate Advocacy
Denison University, 2016, B.A., Economics and History
  • Interfraternity Council (IFC), President; Vice President of Recruitment
  • Denison Campus Governance Association (DCGA), Class Elected Senator
  • Delta Chi Fraternity, Vice President; Secretary
  • Men’s Club Rugby, Backs Captain
  • Distinguished Leadership Award; Greek Man of the Year; American Commons Award; Park National Bank Endowed Scholarship in Economics; Greek Leader of the Year

Clerkships and Bar Admissions

Ohio

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  • Former President, Water Street Homeowner’s Association
  • Former Member, National Kidney Foundation Junior Board
  • Member, Benesch Associate Development Committee
  • Member, Cleveland Food Bank, Junior Board 
  • Graduate, LeadDIVERSITY, a Program of The Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio
  • Volunteer, Animal Protective League Cleveland
  • Listed, Ohio Super Lawyers – Rising Stars, 2025