J. Goodwin Bland has more than 35 years of experience in a variety of commercial and residential real estate transactions. He has experience with acquisitions, sales, and donations relating to office buildings, apartment complexes, condominiums, cooperative housing, and other properties. He has an extensive background in commercial leasing transactions, including office, retail, dormitory, warehouse, ground, net, and forestry leases, and he represents both landlords and tenants in various issues and disputes. J. was named a “2021 Stand-out Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters.
J. also has experience in public-private partnerships, architect and construction agreements, lending, loan restructuring, and bankruptcy transfers.
He represents a broad range of clients, including developers, multifamily residential owners, institutional investors, healthcare firms, insurance companies, energy companies, automobile manufacturers, financial services firms, banks, institutional lenders, technology companies, cooperative associations, retailers, universities, schools, hedge funds, private equity firms, owners, borrowers, and real estate brokerage and management firms, in New York City and on a national level. He is very active in representing a large number of nonprofits and Japanese clients in various real estate transactions, including their headquarters leasing.
J. previously served as the hiring partner of the New York office Hiring Committee, and until October 2019, he served as a co-chair of the firm’s global Diversity and Inclusion Committee. As of July 1, 2023, he became a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Virginia Law School Foundation.
Member, Board of Trustees of the University of Virginia Law School Foundation (2023)
Stand-out Lawyer, Thomson Reuters (2021)
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law, New York (2020–2025)
Recommended, Real estate and construction – Real estate, The Legal 500 US (2017)
Recognized, Real Estate, New York Super Lawyers (2013)
President, Alumni Council, University of Virginia School of Law (2019–2021)
Alvarez-Coughlin Award, presented by University of Virginia Lambda Law Alliance, honoring those who have made significant efforts on behalf of the LGBT community by "creating an open, supportive, and welcoming environment for diversity" at the law school and beyond