Peter L. Kogan

Assisted Avis Budget Group in a wide ranging effort to negotiate leases and secure over 40 new locations across the country for the Avis, Budget, Zipcar and Payless brands owned by the company. Avis previously partnered with Sears at approximately 100 retail locations, but as a result of the Sears bankruptcy, Avis had to quickly relocate many of its rental locations. Those leases represented $70 million in revenue to the company. The real estate team continues to represent Avis with negotiating leases as more Sears locations continue to close.

One of the largest full service Mexican restaurant operators in the United States in negotiating numerous leases and purchase agreements for new restaurants and food service and distribution facilities, as well as various subleases, sale agreements and termination agreements for vacated space.

A leading global discount retailer in the acquisition and leasing of properties throughout Pennsylvania for the development of discount stores, warehouses and distribution centers, including complex land-use, zoning and all development issues.

A major international telecommunications company in negotiating more than 50 leases for office and research facilities throughout North America in a three-year period, as well as numerous subleases and termination arrangements for excess space.

Assisted the Pittsburgh Penguins for the development of the 28 acre Civic Arena site in the Lower Hill District of Pittsburgh, the former home of the National Hockey League team. The project will eventually consist of over 1 million square feet of residential, office, retail, entertainment and hospitality options. There is also a significant affordable housing component to the project. The drive to complete a new master plan for the site involved substantial revisions to the Penguins’ existing redevelopment option agreements along with concurrent efforts connected to tax incentives that included a LERTA (Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance) and the explorations of options found in the Federal Opportunity Zone regulations that are part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. We also assisted with the creation of a Master Owners Association that will govern the common area, residential, office, retail and entertainment venues on the new site along with the new home of the Penguins, PPG Paints Arena. With the long term help of the firm, a $500 million project that can revitalize entire neighborhoods is now ready to break ground.

A publicly traded manufacturer of processed foods in all real estate aspects of the dispositions of integrated food manufacturing and processing facilities in North America, the Caribbean and the Southern Pacific. These complex transactions included the sales and leasebacks of industrial facilities, the creation of sophisticated property-sharing and energy supply arrangements, and the implementation of multi-faceted easement agreements between different operating facilities.

The owners of a National Hockey League franchise in the negotiation of a long-term lease for a new publicly financed arena, together with various complex ancillary agreements involving the construction of the arena and the redevelopment of adjacent properties. The redevelopment efforts also included the negotiation of a partnership between the hockey franchise and a Pittsburgh-area hotel developer for the redevelopment of a former hospital facility into a multi-story lifestyle hotel, as well as the negotiation of the first binding community benefits agreement in Pennsylvania.

A Chicago-based real estate developer in the acquisition and financing of property in the Mt. Washington area of Pittsburgh for a mixed-use development consisting of a boutique hotel, offices and residential condominiums.

The real estate investment division of a publicly traded utility company in its commercial leasing matters, as well as the subsequent sales of its Pittsburgh-area portfolio properties. Properties sold included a multi-tenant corporate center in suburban Pittsburgh, several major office buildings in the downtown Pittsburgh area, and various residential developments throughout the Pittsburgh region.

A major wholesale electronics distributor in negotiating numerous leases for warehouse and administrative space throughout the United States and Canada, including several properties in environmentally impacted areas.

UK-based real estate investors in the redevelopment of a former industrial ceramics facility into a high-technology manufacturing center.

A German-based manufacturer of specialty metal products in the disposition of the real estate and other business assets of a bankrupt U.S. subsidiary corporation.

An international logistics and transportation company in negotiating leases and purchase agreements for warehouse and terminal space throughout the Eastern United States.