Dana Treister is a Partner in the Real Estate department at Seyfarth Shaw LLP. He focuses his practice on a wide variety of real estate transactions, with an emphasis on the acquisition and sale of commercial properties, real estate finance, land use and entitlement work, and commercial leasing transactions. He has recently counseled clients in connection with a variety of development projects, ranging from historic rehabs to ground-up construction, especially in the hospitality area. Dana also has extensive experience representing parties in the formation of joint ventures and in structuring tax-advantaged real estate transactions. In recent years, Dana has represented both borrowers and lenders in both on-balance sheet and conduit loan transactions, and has coordinated the defeasance, re-financing and restructuring of existing debt instruments.