Jamie Duberman is a seasoned real estate attorney with more than 30 years of experience delivering practical, business-minded counsel.

Jamie advises clients nationwide across all areas of real estate law, including:

• Commercial, industrial, residential, and new development transactions
• Leasing, acquisitions, and dispositions
• Financing, title insurance, mortgage lending, and asset-based lending
• Loan and lease workouts, restructurings, defaults, forbearance arrangements, and negotiated resolutions
• Construction and development agreements, including AIA (American Institute of Architects) documents
• Easements, access rights, adjoining-owner issues, and private property rights
• Land use, natural resource, and environmentally sensitive property matters, including development, road construction, commercial access, and regulatory approvals
• Conservation and preservation acquisitions involving municipalities, parks and conservation organizations, nonprofits, property owners, grant holders, and community stakeholders
• Public-private and nonprofit real estate initiatives, including stakeholder coordination, consensus building, and grant-dependent transaction planning
• Landlord-tenant matters, including commercial and ground leasing, defaults, and lease terminations
• Common interest and affordable housing matters (HOAs, condominiums, cooperatives, Section 8, and HUD housing)
• Land trusts and mineral rights
• SNDAs, estoppel certificates, lender consents, and nondisturbance agreements
• Renewable energy projects, including cogeneration, wind, and solar installations
• Telecommunications, wireless, satellite, cable, and infrastructure site agreements
• Ground leases and construction site access agreements
• Property management, vendor, master service, and technology and investor platform agreements

In addition to his real estate practice, Jamie provides counsel on a broad range of transactional matters:

Corporate and Commercial

• Joint ventures, partnerships, and strategic business relationships
• Shareholder, operating, partnership, and other ownership agreements
• Business acquisitions, dispositions, and strategic alternatives
• Letters of intent, NDAs, and transaction due diligence
• Vendor, consulting, licensing, technology, and master service agreements
• Corporate resolutions, signing authority, consents, and transaction approvals
• Day-to-day legal and strategic advice to owners, executives, boards, and management teams

Franchise

• Drafting and negotiating franchise, master franchise, and area development agreements
• Due diligence for acquisitions, divestitures, and transfers of franchise systems
• Reviewing and revising transfer documents and disclosure materials
• Franchise compliance programs, including operations manuals, advertising fund management, and sales representative training
• International franchise expansions, coordinating with foreign counsel on jurisdiction-specific disclosure, trademark, and tax issues

Risk, Claims, and Dispute Management

• Identifying, evaluating, and managing legal, financial, operational, and reputational risk
• Insurance coverage, contractual indemnification, additional insured rights, defense obligations, and risk transfer
• Claims governance, litigation oversight, and management of outside counsel
• Pre-litigation strategy, settlement negotiations, and litigation avoidance
• Contract administration, defaults, terminations, and enforcement, including construction, vendor, tenant, and service provider disputes
• Regulatory and compliance guidance affecting business and real estate operations
• Crisis response and time-sensitive operational matters

Clients frequently rely on Jamie as a central legal resource spanning their real estate, contractual, claims, and corporate matters.

Before joining Outside GC, Jamie founded and served as President of Duberman Associates, a full-service real estate law practice with offices in New York and New Jersey. His practice focused on complex real estate transactions involving acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, financing, workouts, foreclosures, short sales, and development projects. He regularly advised clients on transaction structure, letters of intent, financing strategies, tax considerations, and asset-based lending.

Earlier in his career, Jamie served for a decade as General Counsel to Gateway Title, a regional title insurance agency underwritten by First American and Stewart Title, where he advised on title insurance, underwriting, and transactional matters. He also served as General Counsel to Garden State Mortgage, where he supported commercial and residential lending operations, developed strategic lender relationships, and advised on licensing, underwriting, marketing, originations, processing, and closings of single family, multifamily, mixed use, and SBA 504 owner-user properties.

Jamie earned his law degree from Brooklyn Law School and his business degree from the Hofstra University School of Business. He is licensed in New York and New Jersey. When not working, Jamie enjoys spending time with his family and is an avid cyclist and swimmer.