Farah S. Ahmed

Farah S. Ahmed: Attorney with Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Biography

Farah Ahmed is Deputy Chair of the New York Real Estate Practice and focuses on real estate and real estate finance transactions. She has a broad range of local, national and cross-border experience representing investors, operators, lenders, and developers in the acquisition, disposition, development and financing of various classes of commercial real estate, including office, hospitality, retail, health care, industrial, multifamily, and mixed use properties.

Farah’s real estate capital markets experience includes representation of real estate private equity funds, investment managers, institutional investors, and REITs in the capitalization and financing of real estate through debt or equity at all levels in the capital stack. She regularly handles joint ventures and preferred equity investments, the origination of permanent, bridge or construction mortgage and mezzanine loans, the purchase and sale of loans, and the negotiation of intercreditor, participation, and co-lender relationships.

Concentrations

•Mortgage and mezzanine financing
•Preferred equity
•Acquisitions and dispositions
•Joint ventures
•Construction financing
•Hospitality

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Shortlisted, The Legal Benchmarking Group, 'Women in Business Awards - North America Real Estate Lawyer of the Year,” 2025
•Listed, Lawdragon, 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers, 2024-2025
•Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2021-2025
•Real Estate: Finance, 2024-2025
•Real Estate: Finance, 'Up and Coming,' 2021-2023
•Real Estate: Mainly Dirt, 'Up and Coming,' 2023
•Listed, The Legal 500 United States, 2018-2019, 2021-2025
•'Next Generation Partners,' Real Estate - Real Estate Finance, 2021-2025
•Real Estate, 2018-2019
•Honoree, Bisnow’s Annual New York Power Women, 2024
•Awardee, Connect CRE Women in Real Estate Awards - New York & Tri-State, 2024
•Team Member, Chambers & Partners USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2013, 2017-2018, and 2022
•Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, New York Super Lawyers, 2013-2025
•Listed, 'Rising Star,' 2012
•Team Member, a U.S. News - Best Lawyers, 'Law Firm of the Year' in Real Estate Law, 2015
•Team Member, a Law360 'Real Estate Practice Group of the Year,' 2012, 2013, 2015, 2022, and 2023
•Team Member, The Legal 500 United States, 'Top Tier' Firm in Real Estate, 2013 and 2014

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Areas of Practice (3)

  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Institutional Investors

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
Princeton University, A.B., 2002
Law School Attended:
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2005
Year of First Admission:
2005
Admission:
2005, New York
Memberships:

Professional & Community Involvement

•Member, NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate Advisory Board

Birth Information:
1980
Reported Cases:
Experience: Representative Matters: Represented Square Mile Capital Management LLC in its joint venture with Innovo Property Group in the construction financing totaling $305 million for the development of a one million square foot two-story Class A logistics and distribution facility at 2505 Bruckner Boulevard, Bronx, NY. Bank OZK provided the construction mortgage loan and Everwest Capital provided the mezzanine financing.;
ISLN:
919657586

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212-801-6400  Fax

www.gtlaw.com/People/AhmedFarahS

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