Mitesh Patel concentrates his practice on complex commercial real estate matters, advising a diverse range of clients, including developers, property owners, private lenders, corporations, and operating companies. He regularly counsels clients on acquisitions, dispositions, financings, joint ventures, and preferred equity transactions. Mitesh also integrates real estate strategy into sophisticated corporate transactions, ensuring that real estate considerations are fully aligned with clients' broader business objectives in mergers, acquisitions, and other complex deals across diverse industries.
Mitesh has substantial experience representing both landlords and tenants in commercial leasing matters, guiding clients through the negotiation and documentation of office, retail, industrial, healthcare, and life sciences leases. His work in the healthcare and life sciences sectors includes advising on specialized leasing arrangements that address the unique regulatory and operational requirements of these industries.
In addition to representing institutional and private clients in complex real estate transactions, Mitesh maintains an active pro bono practice. He regularly advises nonprofit organizations—including The Children's Aid Society, Sakhi for South Asian Survivors, and The Trustees of the Sailors' Snug Harbor in the City of New York—on a variety of real estate matters, supporting their missions through strategic legal counsel on property acquisitions, leasing, and compliance issues.
Before joining the firm, Mitesh practiced at a global law firm, where he handled a wide spectrum of real estate and transactional matters.
Experience
- Advises a private equity fund in the acquisitions, financings, and dispositions of multifamily, commercial, and industrial properties nationwide.
- Represents an international investment firm in the acquisition and financing of major hospitality sites across the Northeast.
- Represents a large alternative investment management company in its preferred equity investment in a New York City development project.
- Represents a leading global financial institution, as equity-side sponsor, in deploying capital on behalf of its clients into real estate projects nationwide through partnerships with operating partners.
- Provides ongoing real estate counsel to Fortune 500 companies regarding their portfolios of owned and leased U.S. real properties.
- Represented an investment firm in its lease of 22,000 square feet at the landmark Lever House in New York City.
- Represented a large healthcare company in its lease of premises to develop a neighborhood hospital for inpatient services and a full-service emergency department.
- Provides ongoing representation of Canada Goose, Inc. as tenant in high-end retail store leases throughout the United States.
- Provides ongoing representation of a renowned life sciences research institute as tenant in its lease of an entire building in Cambridge, Massachusetts (225,000 square feet of office and laboratory space) from Boston Properties.
- Provides ongoing representation to Ropes & Gray LLP, as tenant, in its lease of over 535,000 square feet of office space at 1285 Avenue of the Americas.
- Provides ongoing representation of the largest independent broker-dealer in the United States in office lease and sublease transactions.
- Represents a private equity investor in lender-side joint ventures to provide financing for development projects across the United States.
- Advised an investment bank loan originator in connection with an approximately $197 million securitized mortgage loan to finance the construction of an office, warehouse, and R&D campus, net leased upon completion to a large-cap company.*
- Advised an investment bank loan originator in the structuring and placement of an approximately $343 million securitized mortgage loan to finance the construction of a large-cap company’s new corporate headquarters.*
*Experience prior to joining Ropes & Gray