Jacob Frydman has over 40 years of experience, as a lawyer and developer, structuring, financing, and executing highly complex real estate transactions.

He has acquired over five million square feet of real estate located throughout the United States valued at over $2 billion. Mr. Frydman is Senior Counsel to Jacobs P.C., the New York law firm specializing in real estate restructurings.

Mr. Frydman was the CEO and Chairman of United Realty Trust, a public Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) which he founded, took public, and ran as CEO and Chairman until he sold it in 2015.

Mr. Frydman also founded Cabott Lodge Securities, a FINRA member Broker-Dealer and Investment Advisor, of which he was Chairman, and which he grew to over 125 offices throughout the U.S. with more than $1.5 Billion in assets under management when he sold it in 2016.

Since then, Mr. Frydman has focused on consulting and advising developers, investors, and lenders, on commercial real estate. Mr. Frydman is a graduate of Boston University's School of Management (B.S. Finance), and Case Western Reserve University School of Law (J.D.) and was admitted to the bar in 1981.

Mr. Frydman's notable transactions include: the DHL Center in Manhattan's Hudson Yards; Two Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, a Manhattan office-condo by the United Nations, occupied by NGOs and foreign government missions to the U.N.; the Aetna Building in the Wall Street financial district; the Global Crossing Headquarters in Manhattan west side, which he repositioned as an office tower, and the NBC New York television studios, which he acquired from General Electric (NBC's parent), and where, in partnership with Proctor  & Gamble, he produced the long-running and Emmy Awarded TV soap opera: "As the World Turns".

 

 

Mr. Frydman has often participated as a speaker and panelist at industry events, has written extensively about real estate and has been a adjunct lecturer on real estate finance at Columbia University, as well as in the Master's Lecturer series sponsored by New York Law School. As a recognized thought-leader in his field, Mr. Frydman frequently appears on television programs including FOX Business, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, FOX News, and podcasts where he discusses trends in commercial real estate.

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