Alexander Hakopian

Alexander Hakopian is Counsel and a member of Dentons' Real Estate practice group. His primary practice area is Real Estate Law.

He focuses his practice on representing commercial banks, investment banks and other institutional lenders in closing commercial real estate loans on a variety of asset classes including multifamily, industrial, office, retail and hotel properties. He has extensive experience with origination of loans intended for securitisation or other sale on the secondary market, including CMBS and CLO offerings. He also has significant experience representing buyers and sellers of residential and commercial property.

Prior to joining Dentons, he was counsel in the real estate & land use department in the New York office of a multinational law firm.

His representative experience includes representing an investment bank in connection with the origination of a US$56 million floating rate loan refinancing of a hotel in New York City for a balance sheet programme; representing an institutional lender in connection with the origination of a US$39 million fixed rate refinancing of a portfolio of rent-stabilised multifamily properties in New York City for a CMBS execution; and representing a bank in connection with the origination of a US$35 million fixed rate refinancing of a cooperative apartment building in New York City for an agency execution.

He has also represented an institutional lender in connection with the origination of a US$28.25 million floating rate bridge loan refinancing of a multifamily property in Florida for a CRE CLO execution; represented an institutional lender in connection with the origination of a US$28 million fixed rate loan refinancing of a multifamily property in Ohio, structured as a US$24 million mortgage loan for a CRE CLO execution and a US$4 million mezzanine loan, and related mezzanine loan sale; and represented an investment bank in connection with the origination of a US$23.4 million refinancing of a portfolio of retail properties in Illinois, North Carolina and Wisconsin for a CMBS execution.

Other matters include representing an investment bank in connection with the origination of a US$22.165 million fixed rate loan refinancing of an office building in Florida for a CMBS execution; representing an investment bank in connection with the origination of a US$18.5 million fixed rate loan refinancing of an industrial building in California supported by a single tenant for a CMBS execution; and representing an institutional lender in connection with the origination of a US$17.5 million floating rate bridge loan refinancing of a historic tax credit supported hotel in Georgia for a CRE CLO execution.

He also represented an institutional lender in connection with the origination of a US$13.25 million fixed rate refinancing of an office building in Pennsylvania for a CMBS execution; represented an investment bank in connection with the origination of a US$13 million fixed rate acquisition financing of a single tenant retail building in Alabama for a CMBS execution; and represented a private equity firm in connection with the acquisition of an industrial and office property in New Jersey as part of a target acquisition.

He was recognised in Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Real Estate Law, 2025, and is a co-author of "IRS Ruling Provides Additional Advantages to Investors in C-PACE Financings" (Dentons Insights, August 2024). He is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the CRE Finance Council.

He holds a JD, cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law (2007), where he was on the Dean's List and served as Managing Editor of the University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review, and a BS from Cornell University (2001).