Biography

Mr. Gart is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. He focuses his practice on the intricate aspects of commercial real estate. Mr. Gart has extensive knowledge in real estate development, real estate finance, real estate lending, asset management, asset purchase and sales, commercial leasing, mixed-use development and planned communities, including condominium ownership. Mr. Gart counsels investors in joint ventures and providers of mezzanine debt, as well as participants in the community development investment arena.

As counsel on many successful projects, Mr. Gart has conceptualized and documented a mixed use office, retail and residential condominium project involving land units, as well as traditional condominium units. He has counseled a developer in connection with the acquisition and development of a site that incorporated a dilapidated historic structure and contiguous unimproved land into a historic rehabilitation and newly constructed commercial and retail project. Mr. Gart also structured the investment vehicle to utilize historic tax credits and multiple sources of equity and debt funding.

As counsel to commercial banks, thrift institutions and the former Resolution Trust Corporation, he has represented clients on loan originations, including construction, mezzanine and conduit financings and on loan workouts, restructurings and foreclosures, some of which have involved complex litigation and bankruptcy issues.

Mr. Gart has been recognized as a leading lawyer for Real Estate in the District of Columbia in the 2009 Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers.  He has also been selected multiple times by “The Best Lawyers in America” and by Washingtonian magazine as “One of Washington’s Top Lawyers.” Since 2007, he also has been selected as one of the top attorneys in the Washington, D.C., metro area by Super Lawyers Magazine, and most recently by the Super Lawyers Magazine, Corporate Counsel Edition. In 2007, he was selected from a field of the nation’s leading lawyers and judges as a finalist for the Lawdragon 500 based upon his current impact on the biggest issues and deals in the law.

Education

J.D., The George Washington University, The National Law Center, cum laude (1979)

B.A., The George Washington University, with distinction (1976)
Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Maryland
• Virginia

Courts

• U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit