Jennifer Yashar is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Real Estate Practice Group. She represents clients on commercial real estate transactions, with a focus on sophisticated commercial leasing transactions on behalf of prominent owners, developers, financial institutions, law firms, and corporations.
Jen advises many distinguished landlords, including Brookfield Properties, RXR Realty, and Related Companies, with significant experience in the lease-up of developments under construction. She also regularly counsels many law firms, financial institutions, and other corporations on their headquarter leases, including Warner Bros. Discovery, McKinsey, Christie’s, Milbank, Fox, and News Corp.
Jen has been recognized as a leading real estate lawyer by:
- New York Real Estate Journal’s 2024 Women in Commercial Real Estate Spotlight
- Crain’s New York Business 2023 Notable Leader in Real Estate
- Connect Commercial Real Estate’s 2022 Lawyers in Real Estate Award
- GlobeSt Real Estate Forum’s 2020 CRE Legal Counsel “Women of Influence” list
- Real Estate Forum’s “Fifty Under 40”
- Real Estate Weekly’s 2018 list of “Rising Stars” in Real Estate
Jen’s recent experience includes:*
- Brookfield Properties:
- As landlord, in the leasing of more than 2,000,000 office square feet at 200 Vesey Street, 250 Vesey Street, and 225 Liberty Street in Brookfield Place, including leases to Bank of America, The Bank of Nova Scotia, Jones Day, The College Entrance Examination Board, The Bank of New York Mellon, Jane Street Capital, and others.
- As landlord, in the lease-up of One Manhattan West and Two Manhattan West to tenants including Skadden, NHL, Accenture, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, KPMG, and D.E. Shaw.
- Related Companies in its over 1.5 million-square-foot lease to Meta across 30 floors and three buildings at Hudson Yards.
- RXR Realty in connection with leasing Pier 57, including a 250,000-square-foot lease to Google and a 32,000-square-foot lease to City Winery at Pier 57 and several other restaurant leases.
- Property & Building Corp., as landlord, in its 330,000-square-foot lease at 10 Bryant Park in New York to Amazon.
- Warner Bros. Discovery in the sale and leaseback of its 1.4 million-square-foot condominium unit at 30 Hudson Yards to Related, which includes studio space for its CNN, HBO, and Turner Broadcasting affiliates, and subsequent subleasing of more than 710,000 square feet to multiple tenants, including Covington & Burling, Susquehanna International Group (SIG), Stonepeak, Convene, and Visa.
- Fox Corporation and News Corp, as tenants, in their lease renewals and extensions totaling more than 1.2 million square feet at 1211 Avenue of the Americas.
- Blackstone, as tenant, in the extension and expansion of its global headquarters lease at 345 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.
- Christie’s, as tenant, in its 25-year extension of its 400,000-square-foot lease at Rockefeller Center.
- Weill Cornell Medicine:
- In the leasing of 200,000 square feet at 1334 York Avenue from Sotheby’s and the subsequent purchase of the building and partial leaseback to Sotheby’s.
- In its lease extension and expansion at 575 Lexington Avenue for a state-of-the-art clinical practice.
- Shiseido Americas in its 225,000-square-foot lease at 390 Madison Avenue for its U.S. headquarters relocation, which was redeveloped by L&L Holding Company and Clarion Partners on behalf of the New York State Common Retirement Fund.
- Milbank LLP in its relocation from Downtown Manhattan to 55 Hudson Yards, where the law firm occupies 250,000 square feet.
- McKinsey & Company in its 186,000-square-foot lease at Silverstein Properties’ 3 World Trade Center for its headquarters relocation and approximately 40,000 square feet at nearby 195 Broadway.
*Includes representations prior to Jen’s association with Gibson Dunn.
Before joining Gibson Dunn, Jen was a partner at another leading international law firm.
Jen received her B.A. from Barnard College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is fluent in Hebrew and a member of New York Women Executives in Real Estate.
Jen is admitted to practice in the state of New York.
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Credentials
Education:
- Harvard University - 2005 Juris Doctor
- Barnard College - 2001 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- New York Bar