Congratulations to Melissa Bassin and Nahum Palefski on their selection to the 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers List.

This is the 2^nd edition of this guide to advisors who specialize in a vast range of skills – development, finance, leasing, litigation, REIT structuring – on a range of property that can range from a tricky environmental site to a megadevelopment to a troubled Manhattan skyscraper converting from commercial to residential. Lawdragon acknowledges that "from the development and careful handling of a sublime tropical paradise to the redevelopment of JFK International Airport, these are the lawyers you need to know."

The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers List can be found here. Attorneys are selected for inclusion in this guide through Lawdragon's process of combining nominations, independent research and vetting with peers. The selected attorneys have shown outstanding skills in real estate-related practices.

This recognition highlights the capabilities of our attorneys and illustrates their position among the foremost lawyers in their fields. No aspects of these advertisements has been approved by the Court of Appeals of New York or the Supreme Court of New Jersey.