As a Senior Associate in the Real Estate and Finance Practices at Hodgson Russ, Zachary Dewey advises individuals, companies, and funds on every stage of a real estate asset’s life cycle, from acquisition and financing, leasing, property management and brokerage, refinancing, and ultimately dispositions and strategic exits. He frequently serves as a client’s single point of contact on their U.S. portfolios.
His work spans grocery-anchored and other retail, self-storage, industrial, and office assets, for clients ranging from private owners and developers to institutional investors and private equity real estate funds. Zach also assists clients with development matters, entity formation and structuring, and many of the other agreements that can accompany a commercial real estate transaction and the ongoing ownership and management of the asset. On the financing side, he works through lender diligence, loan documentation, and closing conditions with financial institutions and other lenders, moving transactions toward closing without giving up ground in negotiation.
His past and current experience includes representation on the financing and purchase of 14 grocery-anchored shopping centers valued at $425 million, a role as in-house counsel to one of the 25 largest US banks by asset size, working on a portfolio of over 1,500,000 mortgage loans and assisting with onboarding 250,000 loans with an unpaid principal balance of more than $52 billion, as well as representing clients on various self-storage acquisitions totaling over $170 million and growing.
Recognitions
2023 Rising Leaders Program, Leadership Buffalo
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Civic
Board Member, Member of Housing and Historic Preservation Committee: Allentown Association
Secretary, Board of Trustees and Governance Committee Chair: Health and Sciences Charter School