EricSidman
Partner
Real Estate
esidman@seyfarth.com
Eric is a skilled negotiator who executes deals with his clients' best interests in mind.
More About Eric
Eric has a broad-based practice in the area of commercial real estate, regularly representing institutional investors in connection with their acquisition, disposition, joint venture, lending, and leasing activities. Eric also represents landlords and tenants in transactions throughout the country.
Eric practices extensively in the area of corporate real estate, representing companies in a range of transactions related to the management of their real estate portfolios, including headquarters and branch office leasing, negotiating property management and brokerage agreements and advising on the acquisitions and dispositions of real estate assets in connection with mergers, sell-offs or other corporate transactions.
- JD, Harvard Law School
Cum laude
- BA, Emory University
- Georgia
- New York
- Not admitted to practice in North Carolina
Related Services
- Represented a joint venture between a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) and an institutional investor in the sale of a portfolio of 16 shopping centers.
- Represented an institutional investor in the acquisition of joint venture interests in super-regional malls across the country (including the largest retail acquisition in the US in 2016).
- Represented an institutional lender in a seven-state, 15-property cross-collateralized and cross-defaulted loan transaction.
- Represented an institutional lender in a 10-state, 49-property cross-collateralized and cross-defaulted loan transaction.
- Represented a major financial services company in its corporate real estate activities across the country, including the negotiation of a 300,000-square-foot office lease.
- Represented an institutional investor in a programmatic joint venture with a publicly traded REIT to acquire retail properties.
- Represented an institutional investor in its nationwide property sales program, covering properties in all asset classes.
- Represented a national retailer in leasing transactions throughout the country, including a flagship Manhattan location.
- Represented a multinational corporation in the negotiation of a property management agreement covering its entire US real estate portfolio.
- Represented corporate clients in the negotiation of headquarters leases.
- Represented a retail developer in the development, financing and leasing of a super-regional enclosed shopping mall.
Related News & Insights
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Legal Update
Apr 15, 2026
Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2026)
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Legal Update
Dec 10, 2025
Real Estate: Market Pulse (December 2025)
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Firm News
10/22/2025
Seyfarth Advises Nuveen (TIAA) and Jamestown Venture on Sale of Birkdale Village to Hines
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Legal Update
Oct 8, 2025
Real Estate: Market Pulse (October 2025)
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Real Estate Law (2021-2026)
- International Council of Shopping Centers
- Real Estate Board of New York
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2026),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 15, 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (December 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 10, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (October 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 8, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (July 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 9, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 30, 2025)
- Co-Author, "Drafting Leases With a Sale of the Property in Mind," Commercial Leasing Law and Strategy (November 2013)
Eric is a skilled negotiator who executes deals with his clients' best interests in mind.
More About Eric
Eric has a broad-based practice in the area of commercial real estate, regularly representing institutional investors in connection with their acquisition, disposition, joint venture, lending, and leasing activities. Eric also represents landlords and tenants in transactions throughout the country.
Eric practices extensively in the area of corporate real estate, representing companies in a range of transactions related to the management of their real estate portfolios, including headquarters and branch office leasing, negotiating property management and brokerage agreements and advising on the acquisitions and dispositions of real estate assets in connection with mergers, sell-offs or other corporate transactions.
- JD, Harvard Law School
Cum laude
- BA, Emory University
- Georgia
- New York
- Not admitted to practice in North Carolina
Related Services
- Represented a joint venture between a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) and an institutional investor in the sale of a portfolio of 16 shopping centers.
- Represented an institutional investor in the acquisition of joint venture interests in super-regional malls across the country (including the largest retail acquisition in the US in 2016).
- Represented an institutional lender in a seven-state, 15-property cross-collateralized and cross-defaulted loan transaction.
- Represented an institutional lender in a 10-state, 49-property cross-collateralized and cross-defaulted loan transaction.
- Represented a major financial services company in its corporate real estate activities across the country, including the negotiation of a 300,000-square-foot office lease.
- Represented an institutional investor in a programmatic joint venture with a publicly traded REIT to acquire retail properties.
- Represented an institutional investor in its nationwide property sales program, covering properties in all asset classes.
- Represented a national retailer in leasing transactions throughout the country, including a flagship Manhattan location.
- Represented a multinational corporation in the negotiation of a property management agreement covering its entire US real estate portfolio.
- Represented corporate clients in the negotiation of headquarters leases.
- Represented a retail developer in the development, financing and leasing of a super-regional enclosed shopping mall.
Related News & Insights
-
Legal Update
Apr 15, 2026
Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2026)
-
Legal Update
Dec 10, 2025
Real Estate: Market Pulse (December 2025)
-
Firm News
10/22/2025
Seyfarth Advises Nuveen (TIAA) and Jamestown Venture on Sale of Birkdale Village to Hines
-
Legal Update
Oct 8, 2025
Real Estate: Market Pulse (October 2025)
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Real Estate Law (2021-2026)
- International Council of Shopping Centers
- Real Estate Board of New York
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2026),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 15, 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (December 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 10, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (October 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 8, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (July 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 9, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 30, 2025)
- Co-Author, "Drafting Leases With a Sale of the Property in Mind," Commercial Leasing Law and Strategy (November 2013)