Michael E. Lefkowitz

Michael E. Lefkowitz is Managing Member of Rosenberg & Estis, P.C. and a Leader of the firm’s Transactional Department. Over the past 35 years, Lefkowitz has been involved in many aspects of the firm’s activities, including litigation, appeals and administrative law.

Lefkowitz specializes in representing clients in commercial real estate transactions. His focus for many years has been representing lenders and borrowers in completing financing transactions on all levels of the capital stack, and workouts of loans on troubled assets. Since joining Rosenberg & Estis, he has greatly expanded the firm’s expertise in this sector.

Lefkowitz also represents commercial property owners and investors, providing his legal expertise in all other aspects of real estate including leasing, purchase and sale transactions and structuring complex joint ventures. Since 9/11, he has worked with the insurance market assisting many insurance companies in assessing the measure of damage and loss due to a casualty. On large complex property losses, the insurance industry has called Lefkowitz to assess the valuation of assets, soft cost claims, rental value losses and time element claims.

Lefkowitz is also an active principal in a family owned real estate business. The company owns more than one million square feet of retail, office, industrial property and self storage throughout the U.S. Lefkowitz’s experience with managing and developing his own properties has given him an understanding of all the issues concerning commercial real estate from a number of different perspectives. His broad skill set provides him with the knowledge of the numbers behind a deal, the real value of a project, and whether a transaction truly makes sense.

Lefkowitz received his bachelor’s degree in policy studies from Syracuse University and his J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is licensed to practice law in New York and Connecticut. He is a member of the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Advisory Board.