Craig D. Spector is a Partner in Mintz & Gold’s Real Estate and Corporate Departments. His primary areas of practice include transactions in commercial real estate, real estate finance, property development and construction, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and general business representation. Craig serves as general counsel for many long-standing clients, including owners of commercial real estate and businesses, private equity funds, national tenants, developers, investors, and lenders, advising on significant transactions and day-to-day business matters.
Representative legal work includes:
- Commercial real estate acquisition, disposition, finance, and development.
- Secured financing across all classes of real estate and business assets for borrowers and lenders.
- Comprehensive leasing services including representation of landlords and tenants in connection with office, retail, industrial and warehouse properties, with a specialty in complex build to suit projects.
- Corporate mergers and acquisitions.
- Structuring entities and forming joint ventures for investment purposes.
- Serving clients in connection with workouts of defaulted debt.
- Corporate and partnership dissolution litigation.
Craig represents clients throughout the New York metropolitan area, New Jersey and nationwide. Craig is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and the State of New Jersey. Prior to joining Mintz & Gold, Craig was Chair of the Real Estate Department of a prestigious national and international law firm. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and his Juris Doctor degree from New England Law in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a member of the New York State Bar, the New Jersey State Bar, and the American Bar Association. Rated “AV Preeminent” in Martindale- Hubble. ALM & Martindale-Hubble “New York Top-Rated Lawyers” 2019-2020. Best Lawyers 2021-2022.