Richard Favata

Associate

P: (212) 837-6105
F: (212) 299-6105

Areas of Concentration

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • Corporate Reorganization
    • Out-of-Court workouts
    • Restructurings

Professional Activities

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affliates

  • Real Estate Associate (2004 – 2007)
  • Represented major corporations, lenders, investment banks, property owners, developers and municipal entities in connection with real estate transactions, including the leasing, sale, sale-leaseback, financing, work-outs and disposition of commercial and industrial projects. 
  • Involved with corporate, bankruptcy and other attorneys handling the real estate-related aspects of multi-faceted transactions, including the merger, acquisition, consolidation or bankruptcy of corporations with significant real estate assets.

Babcock & Brown

  • Real Estate Transaction Counsel (2008)
  • Directed legal aspects of several business platforms, including equity investments in retail, industrial, residential and self-storage portfolios and a portfolio of loans consisting of senior, junior and mezzanine loans, including managing the work-out and/or repositioning of underperforming assets.

Practice Groups and Other Information

Education Information

  • Yale University, B.A., 2001
  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2004, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Associate Editor of the Fordham Law Review

Bar Admissions

  • New York, 2005
  • New Jersey, 2005