Jacob J. Moss

Jacob J. Moss is Counsel in Dentons' Real Estate practice. His primary practice area is Real Estate Law, focusing on all types of commercial real estate matters, including complex acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, leases and financings and loan restructurings representing both borrowers and lenders.

He has counselled a broad variety of clients, including public real estate companies, private developers, institutional lenders and investors, private equity and hedge funds, institutional landlords, small business tenants, high net worth individuals and other real estate investors, in transactions across various real estate asset classes ranging from office buildings to multifamily and residential projects, retail to hospitality, and industrial to senior housing.

His financing experience includes representing a Korean asset manager as lender in the modification of an approximately US$65 million mortgage loan and an approximately US$65 million mezzanine loan secured by direct and indirect interests in a New York City mixed-use building; representing a private developer as borrower in an approximately US$182 million construction financing of a condominium project in San Diego; representing an asset management firm as lender in the restructuring of an approximately US$500 million financing of a hospitality property in New York; representing a prominent department store operator as borrower in the restructuring of an approximately US$850 million CMBS loan secured by a portfolio of retail properties; and representing a public REIT as borrower in an approximately US$1.515 billion refinancing secured by a portfolio of healthcare properties.

His acquisitions, dispositions and joint venture experience includes representing a public REIT in its approximately US$5.9 billion sale of certain industrial assets and an affiliated industrial operating platform, and representing institutional investment firms and asset management firms in joint ventures involving acquisitions and financings of hospitality and mixed-use properties ranging from approximately US$40 million to US$120 million.

His leasing experience includes representing a manufacturing company as sublandlord in a sublease of approximately 250,000 square feet of industrial space in New Jersey, and representing an energy systems company as tenant in the ground leasing of approximately seven acres of land for the installation and operation of electric power storage systems in Travis County, Texas.

He holds a JD from The University of Texas School of Law (2014) and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania (2002).