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.
What I Do
Experience
Represented a multi-family developer in the sale of an affordable housing development in Avon, Indiana, involving complex regulatory and financing structures.
Represented a client in the purchase of a shopping center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, including negotiating tenant build-out and permitting issues and securing protections related to REAs and roadway maintenance.
Represented a client in the sale of a multifamily property in Philadelphia involving the individual sale of more than 200 condominiums, requiring extensive negotiation of HOA matters, individual pricing and title issues.
Represented a publicly traded REIT as buyer’s and landlord’s counsel in a more than $22 million sale-leaseback transaction involving five auto repair properties in Nebraska, Tennessee, Illinois and Alabama.
Represented Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of a portfolio of 228 mortgage loans from Atlantic Union Bank for approximately $2 billion.
Represented multi-family developer in the sale of affordable senior housing development in Houston, Texas.
Represented a nonprofit animal services company in the purchase of its new headquarters in Garfield Heights, OH.
Represented Brookfield Asset Management in connection with the real estate and loan-related matters of its acquisition of a portfolio of 43 mortgage loans from Valley National Bank for over $920 million.
Represent NRP in the sale of a multifamily property located in in Bee Cave, Texas for $49 million.
Represented a real estate agency in the purchase of a single tenant commercial building in Belleville, IL.
Represented a real estate development and investment firm in the sale of multifamily development located in Salisbury, MD for $15 million, which required a loan assumption by the buyer and a joint venture with the buyer.
Represented a REIT in the sale of outparcel land in Lake View Plaza, Orland Park, IL for $2.6 million.
Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a grocery anchored shopping center in a suburb of Chicago, IL for $16,650,000.
Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of 12 properties located in Mississippi and Louisiana and leased to Dollar General for a total aggregate purchase price of over $21,000,000.
Represented buyer in its $32,500,000 acquisition of 22.6-acre shopping center located in Loganville, Georgia, with 26 tenants and anchored by Kroger.
Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of twenty-one retail/industrial properties in a more than $40 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.
Represented client in the acquisition and development of two future Popeye’s in Colorado for a total of $5,357,143. Drafted and negotiated all loan documents, joint venture documents, acquisition documents and all other documents required in connection with the acquisition of the properties and loan.
Represented publicly traded REIT in the sale of a formers Sears in Cedar Rapids, IA for $3,500,000.
Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of eleven retail locations across two states in a more than $22 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.
Represented a leading real estate investment trust in the acquisition of a $16,250,000 grocery anchored shopping center in Georgia.
Represented a large industrial property owner and developer in the sale of a property in Indiana for $11,725,000.
Represented an NYSE-listed REIT in the sale of an American casual dining restaurant chain in Kentucky and Delaware.
Represented a real estate investment and advisory firm in a $2,050,000 sale of a recently developed Dutch Bros in Lancaster, CA.
Represented a commercial real estate company in the purchase of $19,000,000 industrial property in Henderson, NC.
Represent client in the purchase of an outdoor shopping center.
Represented client in the purchase of 5 properties that were recently developed in Michigan and Illinois and newly leased to tenants.
Represented the seller in its sale of a retail shopping center in Rochester, New York.
Represented seller in the sale of a recently developed grocery store in California.
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Credentials
Education
- 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
- 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
More
- 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
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