IrynaColter
Partner
Real Estate
icolter@seyfarth.com
Iryna is a strategic, business-minded advisor with a singular focus on her client’s real estate and transactional successes.
More About Iryna
Clients look to Iryna for her advice and counsel related to the acquisition, disposition, financing, and leasing of commercial and residential real estate across the country and internationally. She has significant experience assisting clients with both singular and portfolio real estate transactions involving multifamily assets, condominium projects, shopping centers, office buildings, hotels, industrial properties, and undeveloped land. Iryna maintains a niche practice in the area of upscale retail, restaurant, and hospitality leasing, combining her legal experience with business acumen in a flexible way that best serves her clients’ needs.
Her clients include public and private companies, developers, banks, family offices, celebrities, high-net-worth individuals, and entrepreneurs across a broad range of industries.
Iryna is fluent in Ukrainian and has a working knowledge of Spanish.
Her clients include public and private companies, developers, banks, family offices, celebrities, high-net-worth individuals, and entrepreneurs across a broad range of industries.
Iryna is fluent in Ukrainian and has a working knowledge of Spanish.
- JD, University of Florida College of Law
Notes Chair, Journal of Law and Public Policy
Dean's List
General Board Member, Florida Journal of International Law
Teaching Assistant, Legal Research and Writing and Appellate Advocacy - MS, Georgia Institute of Technology
International Affairs
Graduate Assistant, Sam Nunn Security Program - BBA, University of North Georgia
Minor in Spanish
- Florida
- Not admitted to practice in Georgia
Related Services
Acquisitions and Dispositions
- Represented an investment and management company, focused on acquiring existing commercial real estate across the United States, in structuring and executing the acquisitions of real estate across the U.S. (via joint ventures) with a total project value of over $200 million.
- Represented a real estate investment firm in connection with its sale of a condominium hotel within an ocean front mixed-use development in Clearwater Beach, Florida for the sale price of approximately $120 million.
- Represented a land owner in the negotiation and sale of 3,700 continuous acres in Palm Beach County, Florida.
- Represented an investment and property management firm in its acquisition of the condominium building in Tampa, Florida for the purchase price of over $40 million.
- Represented a private commercial bank in its sale of land with two landmark downtown Miami buildings to an investment, management and leasing firm for approximately $24.6 million.
- Represented a real estate development and construction company in its sale of the 160,000-square-foot retail plaza in Coral Springs, Florida for $33.7 million.
- Represented a development company in connection with the acquisition of a five-building office park located in West Palm Beach, Florida from General Electric Credit Corp..
Leasing
- Represented a hospitality entrepreneur in connection with negotiating several upscale restaurant leases in Miami, Florida.
- Represented a real estate investment and development company in connection with the negotiation of several leases in upscale shopping centers in Florida and other states.
- Represented a real estate investment management group in connection with negotiating retail leases in a 179,000-square-foot retail center located in Coral Springs, Florida.
- Represented an embassy of a foreign country in the U.S. in connection with the office leasing matters.
- Represented a cruise line in connection with negotiating tenant leases at the international cruise port.
Development
- Represented national and regional real estate developers in matters concerning the acquisition, development, construction and operation of small- and large-scale residential and mixed-use condominium and planned developments, including drafting and customizing condominium and homeowners association documents.
- Represented a cruise line and its affiliates in connection with the creation, development and implementation of a new cruise port in Falmouth, Jamaica, valued at over $200 million.
Financing and Debt Restructuring
- Represented an owner of a resort property located in Central America in connection with the modification of its existing financing arrangements.
- Represented a real estate developer in connection with the ownership and loan restructuring of a mountain estate residential fly-in fly-out community (with the project value of over $25 million).
- Represented a closely held multi-state real estate sales and development enterprise in a $500 million out-of-court debt restructuring.
Related News & Insights
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Speaking Engagement
Jun 15, 2022
Marjorie Culver and Iryna Ivashchuk Present "Lunch and Learn: Impact of the War in Ukraine on Business and on the People of Ukraine" Hosted by NY Chapter of the Coalition of Women's Initiatives in Law
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Firm News
Aug 24, 2021
Seyfarth Adds Atlanta Partner Iryna Ivashchuk to its Expanding Real Estate Department
- Florida Super Lawyers, Rising Star (2013-2021)
- 40 Under 40 Award Recipient, South Florida Business Journal (2018)
- Winner, Latin America Deal of the Year, The International M&A Advisor Awards (2017)
- Winner, Refinancing Deal of the Year (Over $250MM), The M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards (2017)
- Fellow, Diversity Fellowship Program of the Business Law Section of the Florida Bar (2015-2016)
- Finalist, Top Dealmakers of the Year: Leasing, Daily Business Review, 2014
- Ukrainian American Bar Association (board of governors, 2020-2021; vice president, 2017-2019; secretary, 2015-2017)
- Georgia Tech Bar Association
- Florida Venture Forum, board member
Languages
- Ukrainian
- Spanish
Iryna is a strategic, business-minded advisor with a singular focus on her client’s real estate and transactional successes.
More About Iryna
Clients look to Iryna for her advice and counsel related to the acquisition, disposition, financing, and leasing of commercial and residential real estate across the country and internationally. She has significant experience assisting clients with both singular and portfolio real estate transactions involving multifamily assets, condominium projects, shopping centers, office buildings, hotels, industrial properties, and undeveloped land. Iryna maintains a niche practice in the area of upscale retail, restaurant, and hospitality leasing, combining her legal experience with business acumen in a flexible way that best serves her clients’ needs.
Her clients include public and private companies, developers, banks, family offices, celebrities, high-net-worth individuals, and entrepreneurs across a broad range of industries.
Iryna is fluent in Ukrainian and has a working knowledge of Spanish.
Her clients include public and private companies, developers, banks, family offices, celebrities, high-net-worth individuals, and entrepreneurs across a broad range of industries.
Iryna is fluent in Ukrainian and has a working knowledge of Spanish.
- JD, University of Florida College of Law
Notes Chair, Journal of Law and Public Policy
Dean's List
General Board Member, Florida Journal of International Law
Teaching Assistant, Legal Research and Writing and Appellate Advocacy - MS, Georgia Institute of Technology
International Affairs
Graduate Assistant, Sam Nunn Security Program - BBA, University of North Georgia
Minor in Spanish
- Florida
- Not admitted to practice in Georgia
Related Services
Acquisitions and Dispositions
- Represented an investment and management company, focused on acquiring existing commercial real estate across the United States, in structuring and executing the acquisitions of real estate across the U.S. (via joint ventures) with a total project value of over $200 million.
- Represented a real estate investment firm in connection with its sale of a condominium hotel within an ocean front mixed-use development in Clearwater Beach, Florida for the sale price of approximately $120 million.
- Represented a land owner in the negotiation and sale of 3,700 continuous acres in Palm Beach County, Florida.
- Represented an investment and property management firm in its acquisition of the condominium building in Tampa, Florida for the purchase price of over $40 million.
- Represented a private commercial bank in its sale of land with two landmark downtown Miami buildings to an investment, management and leasing firm for approximately $24.6 million.
- Represented a real estate development and construction company in its sale of the 160,000-square-foot retail plaza in Coral Springs, Florida for $33.7 million.
- Represented a development company in connection with the acquisition of a five-building office park located in West Palm Beach, Florida from General Electric Credit Corp..
Leasing
- Represented a hospitality entrepreneur in connection with negotiating several upscale restaurant leases in Miami, Florida.
- Represented a real estate investment and development company in connection with the negotiation of several leases in upscale shopping centers in Florida and other states.
- Represented a real estate investment management group in connection with negotiating retail leases in a 179,000-square-foot retail center located in Coral Springs, Florida.
- Represented an embassy of a foreign country in the U.S. in connection with the office leasing matters.
- Represented a cruise line in connection with negotiating tenant leases at the international cruise port.
Development
- Represented national and regional real estate developers in matters concerning the acquisition, development, construction and operation of small- and large-scale residential and mixed-use condominium and planned developments, including drafting and customizing condominium and homeowners association documents.
- Represented a cruise line and its affiliates in connection with the creation, development and implementation of a new cruise port in Falmouth, Jamaica, valued at over $200 million.
Financing and Debt Restructuring
- Represented an owner of a resort property located in Central America in connection with the modification of its existing financing arrangements.
- Represented a real estate developer in connection with the ownership and loan restructuring of a mountain estate residential fly-in fly-out community (with the project value of over $25 million).
- Represented a closely held multi-state real estate sales and development enterprise in a $500 million out-of-court debt restructuring.
Related News & Insights
-
Speaking Engagement
Jun 15, 2022
Marjorie Culver and Iryna Ivashchuk Present "Lunch and Learn: Impact of the War in Ukraine on Business and on the People of Ukraine" Hosted by NY Chapter of the Coalition of Women's Initiatives in Law
-
Firm News
Aug 24, 2021
Seyfarth Adds Atlanta Partner Iryna Ivashchuk to its Expanding Real Estate Department
- Florida Super Lawyers, Rising Star (2013-2021)
- 40 Under 40 Award Recipient, South Florida Business Journal (2018)
- Winner, Latin America Deal of the Year, The International M&A Advisor Awards (2017)
- Winner, Refinancing Deal of the Year (Over $250MM), The M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards (2017)
- Fellow, Diversity Fellowship Program of the Business Law Section of the Florida Bar (2015-2016)
- Finalist, Top Dealmakers of the Year: Leasing, Daily Business Review, 2014
- Ukrainian American Bar Association (board of governors, 2020-2021; vice president, 2017-2019; secretary, 2015-2017)
- Georgia Tech Bar Association
- Florida Venture Forum, board member
Languages
- Ukrainian
- Spanish