Michael Glazer is a partner of the firm specializing in real estate, commercial finance, joint ventures and leasing. Mr. Glazer served as chair of Goodwin Procter’s Real Estate, REITs & Real Estate Capital Markets Group from 1984 to 1994 and as chair of the firm’s Real Estate Investment Management Practice until 2006. He has also served on the firm’s Executive Committee, Management Committee and Allocations Committee.
Mr. Glazer has developed special expertise advising and representing real estate investment managers, real estate funds and institutional investors in connection with their investment opportunities. These investments often target the special needs of tax exempt investors such as pension funds and endowments as well as foreign investors. Working with attorneys in the firm’s Tax, ERISA & Executive Compensation, REITs and Real Estate Securities and Corporate practice areas, Mr. Glazer helps structure complex debt and equity transactions to meet the needs of these institutional investors.
Mr. Glazer also has extensive real estate transactional experience managing some of the largest real estate acquisition, disposition and joint venture transactions in the country. He recently represented one client in the $5.4 billion acquisition and joint venture of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in New York City, believed to be the largest single property real estate transaction in the history of the United States.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Glazer recently served on the Board of Directors of the Commercial Brokers Association of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board and was that Board’s representative on the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board. He also served as a member of the Real Property Counsel of the Massachusetts Bar Association.
MEDIA
Mr. Glazer has been a frequent lecturer for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Massachusetts Bar Association and Professional Education Systems.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Glazer is admitted to practice in Massachusetts.
RECOGNITION
In 2007, Mr. Glazer was selected for inclusion on the Lawdragon “Top 500 Dealmakers in America” list. He has been named for the last several years as one of the leading real estate lawyers in Boston and the United States in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, as well as The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Glazer is also a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.