Bio

Practical, business-focused, and mindful of the legal and financial issues and implications of the transactions he shepherds to consummation, Aaron Rosenfeld advises clients on sophisticated commercial real estate, hospitality, and corporate transactions. Aaron is equally adept at hard-nosed negotiations as he is at building consensus, adopting strategies best suited to achieving his clients’ goals and working tirelessly to expeditiously and efficiently get them across the finish line. Aaron’s wide-ranging real estate and corporate transactions practice includes real estate development, hospitality asset transactions, joint ventures, venture capital and private equity transactions, mergers, acquisitions, commercial lending, and general corporate and government contracts matters. He represents purchasers, sellers, and financing parties in asset and entity transactions spanning a wide range of deal structures and asset classes. His lengthy record of closing deals valued in the billions of dollars is a product of his unwavering work ethic and personal drive to achieve the best result possible for each client. A large part of Aaron’s practice focuses on advising real estate companies on acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, capital raises, real estate assemblages, related financings, like-kind exchanges, and leasing. Aaron also represents early-stage venture capital-backed companies, private companies, and lenders in commercial financing matters, and he works with government contractors on transactions involving teaming or joint venture arrangements with other contractors. An active listener and proven negotiator, Aaron can synthesize complexity, deescalate problems, and ultimately keep a transaction on course when and where it is needed most. Consistently recognized by Super Lawyers as a Washington, DC, ​“Rising Star” (2013–2017), Aaron has a practical and succinct approach that allows him to streamline communications by getting to the point quickly and clearly. Before joining Kelley Drye, Aaron was an associate in the Leveraged Finance Group at CIBC World Markets. While at CIBC, he focused primarily on publishing high yield research, with investment recommendations, to buy-side clients and in-house traders on companies in the telecommunications, cable, satellite, and media industries.