Stuart Saft

Veteran real estate lawyer Stuart Saft has been tapped to chair the New York real estate practice at Holland & Knight, only 13 months after joining the firm, Law360 reported.

While at Holland & Knight, Saft — who was formerly at Dewey & LeBoeuf and has been involved in many of the city’s largest deals over the past two decades – worked on Starwood Capital Group’s Baccarat Hotel deal as well as a 34-story hotel that Starwood is developing in conjunction with the Moinian Group. He has also been advising Ziel Feldman’s HFZ Capital Group on its Halcyon project in Turtle Bay. [more]

Stuart Saft

Veteran attorney Stuart Saft will join the law firm of Holland & Knight after resigning this afternoon as head of the global real estate practice at Dewey & LeBoeuf, The Real Deal has learned. Saft will begin his new position tomorrow as co-chair of Holland & Knight’s New York real estate practice, sharing the duties with existing real estate leader Martin “Marty” Miner, who leads a team of about a dozen lawyers there.

“Stuart’s one of the preeminent real estate practitioners in New York,” Miner told The Real Deal. “He’s just a great addition to our group.” [more]