Jeffrey Diamond is the leader of the firm’s transactional practice. He has had extensive experience representing clients in a wide range of commercial and residential real estate matters including retail, office and industrial space leasing, sales and purchases, financing, development and construction. He has represented the boards of numerous luxury and other cooperatives and condominiums in New York City.

Mr. Diamond has acted as counsel to landlords and tenants in leasing supermarkets, apparel stores, movie theaters and other retail locations, both in urban street locations and in shopping centers and malls. He represented one of the leading national clothing store chains in the lease of its flagship location in Rockefeller Center. He has handled the sale of a retail chain of approximately 120 stores, the financing of numerous properties in Manhattan and elsewhere and the negotiation of construction contracts for a wide range of projects.

Mr. Diamond graduated from Cornell University in 1974, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Distinction. He studied at the University of Cambridge in 1974 and 1975 and received his Juris Doctor degree from New York University in 1978.
Mr. Diamond is presently a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial Leasing Committee and the Cooperative and Condominium Committee and the American Bar Association’s Ground Leasing Committee. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of Ticor Title Guarantee Company, a subsidiary of Chicago Title Insurance Company.
His interests outside of the office include sports, songwriting and playing guitar, reading and generally expanding his knowledge of the world. He enjoys the stimulating challenges that his legal practice present every day and the many close relationships that he has developed with clients and others over the years.