Sander Ash leverages decades of industry experience to advise clients on complex commercial real estate transactions.

Sander guides public real estate investment trusts (REITs), corporations, private developers, institutions, funds, and high net-worth individuals through a broad spectrum of sophisticated real estate matters, including:

  • Acquisitions and dispositions
  • Commercial and ground leasing
  • Deal structure and negotiation strategy
  • Environmental, land use, and other regulatory issues
  • Fund and joint venture agreements
  • Financings
  • Special situations

Sander brings extensive in-house experience and a deep understanding of client perspectives to transactions involving a range of asset classes, including offices, hotels, retail locations, residential properties, and data centers.

Sander maintains an active pro bono practice advising on real estate development matters. 

Before joining the firm, he served as deputy general counsel at Safehold (formerly iStar). 

Sander’s representative clients include:

  • Amherst
  • Apollo
  • Anduril Industries
  • Blue Owl Capital
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Steiner 

His representative experience includes advising: 

  • Sixth Street Partners:
    • On its US$250 million investment in Plymouth Industrial REIT, a real estate investment company focused on single and multi-tenant industrial properties
    • In connection with its US$55.5 million preferred equity investment in Apartment Investment and Management Company for the development of a luxury waterfront rental development
    • iStar on the US$3 billion sale of its net lease portfolio to Carlyle Global Credit*
  • Safehold on developing its modern ground lease program, which manifested in over 100 ground lease transactions across all asset classes and stages of development for US$5 billion+ in transactions since 2019*
  • North Bridge in its partnership with Carlyle to provide up to US$1 billion in private credit commercial property assessed clean energy (C-PACE) financing 

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham & Watkins 

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Practices