Ken represents internationally recognized brands, retailers, developers, lending institutions and insurance companies in real estate transactions. Ken also serves on high-scale financings and oversees all office leasing for Odyssey Group Holdings, Inc., a $74.1 billion company, in North America. He has successfully completed leasing transactions in 26 states and in most major office buildings in New York City.
Prior to 2002, Ken was of counsel to the New York law firm Piliero Goldstein Jenkins & Sullivan, LLP and counsel to the New York office of the Chicago-based law firm Mayer Brown where he represented banks and other institutional lenders, developers, insurance companies and manufacturers in a myriad of real estate transactions. Ken was also a real estate partner at the New York office of the international law firm Marks & Murase, where he worked with many foreign clients establishing offices in New York. In 2002, Ken became General Counsel to Beau Dietl & Associates, a nationally recognized security and investigations company, and to its Chairman, Richard "Bo" Dietl, concerning real estate law and other investments in close coordination with real estate developers, celebrities, and other officers of other companies, where he served as General Counsel for 13 years. He has over 40 years experience in commercial real estate law, including the acquisition of office buildings, hotels, golf courses and shopping centers, the formation of joint ventures for the purchase and management of real estate, leasing and construction and permanent financing.
Ken is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts and is a Member of the Board of Directors of The AHRC New York City Foundation, where he has been a Board Member since 2013.
Bar & Court Admissions
- New York
- Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
Education
- J.D., Boston College Law School
- M.P.A., New York University
- B.A., with Outstanding Academic Honors, Binghamton University
Community Engagement
- New York State Certified Volunteer Firefighter (1995-2008)
- New York City Urban Fellow (1973-1974)