Gerami Granello
Partner
Overview
Gerami Granello is a real estate attorney in Holland & Knight's Houston office. Mr. Granello provides asset management and leasing representation to institutional real estate funds and advisers in connection with the ownership, operation and management of their office, retail and industrial real estate portfolios across the nation and in Latin America. He has provided extensive representation in connection with build-to-suit office projects for leading technology companies, build-to-suit industrial distribution and fulfillment centers for leading e-commerce companies, rooftop solar leasing and development, and U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) leasing.
In addition, Mr. Granello represents leading banks, financial services companies and energy companies in connection with the negotiation of their headquarter office leases and management of their real estate portfolios. He also represents developers, funds and advisers in connection with the purchase, sale and financing of all categories of real estate, including raw land, multifamily projects, retail shopping centers, industrial warehouses, office buildings and condominiums.
Mr. Granello also represents his clients in connection with the granting of licenses and easements, including billboard, construction, pipeline, windmill, railroad, sanitary sewer, utility, cable/internet, public right-of-way, and other private and public access easements. Mr. Granello is proficient in Italian and Spanish.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Granello was a partner at a global law firm in its Houston office where he helped lead the firm's national asset management and leasing group.
Representative Experience
- Represent institutional real estate investment funds and advisers, as landlords, in an average of 400 new leases and amendments each year in connection with a portfolio of 40 office buildings, industrial projects and shopping centers in all major markets across the United States
- Represent institutional real estate investment funds and advisers, as owners, in connection with day-to-day asset management matters, including property management agreements, exclusive listing agreements, brokerage commission agreements, subordination agreements, estoppels, telecommunications agreements, license agreements, easement agreements, vendor agreements, storage agreements, default notices and construction contracts
- Represented various landlords in more than 30 build-to-suit leases for distribution and fulfillment centers with the world's largest e-commerce companies
- Represented various landlords in multiple build-to-suit office projects with the world's largest technology companies
- Represented various landlords in connection with dozens of industrial solar panel developments and leasing
- Represented an energy company, as tenant, in the leasing of 390,000 square feet of office space in San Jose, California
- Represented an energy company, as tenant, in the leasing of 109,000 square feet of office space at an office tower in downtown Houston
- Represented a financial services company, as tenant, in the leasing of 47,000 square feet of office space in Scottsdale, Arizona
- Represented a bank, as tenant, in the leasing of 45,000 square feet of office space at an office tower in downtown Chicago
- Represented an energy company, as tenant, in the leasing of 28,000 square feet of office space in downtown Houston
- Represented an energy company, as tenant, in the leasing of 23,000 square feet of office space in downtown Chicago
- Represented an energy company, as tenant, in the leasing of 20,000 square feet of office space in downtown Houston
- Represented an institutional real estate fund in the $184 million acquisition of an office tower in Miami
- Represented an institutional real estate adviser in the $128 million acquisition of a multifamily project in Englewood, Colorado
- Represented an institutional real estate fund in the $87.5 million acquisition of 1,153 acres of port property in Houston
- Represented an institutional real estate adviser in the $53 million disposition of an office tower in Travis County, Texas
- Represented an institutional real estate adviser in the $46 million acquisition of an office project in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Represented an institutional real estate fund in the $45.5 million acquisition of an office tower in Harris County, Texas
- Represented an institutional real estate fund in the $40.5 million acquisition of a shopping center in Houston
- Represented an institutional real estate adviser in the $39 million acquisition of a shopping center in Coral Gables, Florida
- Represented an institutional real estate fund with the refinance of two Freddie Mac loans in the amounts of $25 million and $27 million
- Represented an institutional real estate fund in the $21.6 million disposition of an office project in Fort Worth, Texas
- Represented an institutional real estate fund in the $18 million acquisition of an industrial project in Scott County, Minnesota, and in the $10.6 million acquisition of an industrial project in Harris County, Texas
- Represented several domestic institutional investment companies in connection with the formation of joint ventures, the negotiation of international title insurance and the acquisition of industrial warehouses in Mexico
- Represented an international hotel chain in connection with the acquisition and development of real property in Costa Rica
Credentials
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., with honors
- The University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A., Finance, with high honors
- Texas
- Italian
- Spanish