David J. Furman is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and Chair of the firm’s New York Real Estate Private Equity Practice Group. His practice focuses on real estate capital markets, financings, acquisitions and dispositions, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and joint ventures, debt restructurings and workouts and leasing. Recently, Mr. Furman was noted again as a top real estate attorney in The US Legal 500 2009. Mr. Furman was also chosen as one of the top 3% attorneys in the nation for 2009 by The Legal News.
Mr. Furman’s real estate clients include, among others, such companies as Investcorp, J.P. Morgan/Flemming, HSBC, MFA Mortgage Investments, Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank. Last year, Mr. Furman completed in excess of $1 billion in real estate transactions for his clients, including the acquisition and disposition of property located in the New York Metropolitan area, Las Vegas, Southern Florida and Northern and Southern California.
Recently, Mr. Furman has been actively involved in representing commercial buyers of real estate debt, including mezzanine loans, B notes, senior loans and CMBS.
Mr. Furman also has been involved in numerous Islamic finance transactions. He has been at the forefront of developing and implementing, for a number of clients over the past ten years, real estate products that are compliant with Islamic law, including Ijara and Murabaha structures.
Mr. Furman served as a panelist for “Buying Distressed Mezzanine Paper: Looking at Secondary Market Purchases, Sales & Mezzanine Liquidity” and a moderator for “TALF, TARP & PPIP Update” at recent Information Management Network Real Estate Conferences. Mr. Furman is frequently quoted by the press, he was most recently featured in GlobeStreet.com and Real Estate Bisnow for his experience with real estate workouts, as well as in Bloomberg, and Real Estate New York.
He has previously lectured at the International Council of Shopping Centers Law conferences, and is co-author, with Andrew H. Levy, of “Credit-Based Lending to Real Estate Entities with Multiple Assets” (Real Estate Review, Winter 1997).
He earned his Juris Doctor in 1986 from the Cornell Law School and a joint Bachelor of Arts/Master of Arts degree in 1983 from the University of Pennsylvania.