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Jonathan Kret

Partner

New York, NY
156 West 56th Street
New York, NY 10019
P 212.237.1075 F 212.262.1215
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Experience

Jonathan is a results-driven corporate and transactional attorney who serves as a strategic advisor to businesses and organizations across a wide range of industries. His practice spans the full spectrum of business law — including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, business formations, fund formation, corporate restructurings, and corporate governance — allowing clients to rely on him as a single, trusted resource for their most significant legal and strategic needs.

Jonathan represents an extensive and diverse client base, including hospitals and healthcare organizations, medical and dental practices, hospitality groups, financial institutions, fund managers, lenders, real estate investors and developers, brokers, start-ups, and closely held businesses. Whether guiding established companies or emerging enterprises, he delivers practical, business-focused counsel tailored to each client’s goals.

In his transactional practice, Jonathan leads clients through complex asset and equity transactions, corporate buyouts, financings, mergers, and restructurings. He is skilled at structuring and negotiating capital transactions and routinely prepares and negotiates LLC operating agreements, shareholder agreements, employment and consulting agreements, and a wide range of ancillary business contracts. Clients value his ability to distill intricate issues into clear guidance and to drive transactions forward with efficiency and precision.

Jonathan also maintains a strong joint venture practice, representing financial institutions and real estate developers in the acquisition, development, and financing of real estate assets. He regularly advises on business start-ups and strategic business combinations, helping clients position themselves for long-term growth and success.

Representative Matters

  • Represented a nonprofit healthcare system and acute care teaching hospital in the negotiation of a member substitution agreement with a comprehensive healthcare system for consideration totaling in excess of $710 million.
  • Represented a nonprofit healthcare system and acute care teaching hospital in the negotiation of a member substitution and merger agreement with a comprehensive healthcare system for consideration totaling in excess of $435 million.
  • Represented a NJ ambulatory surgical hospital in the sale of assets in exchange for cash and equity of the purchaser.
  • Represented a stockholder in a corporate buyout of their 50% interest in a joint venture owning four automobile dealerships.
  • Represented an alternative investment management firm in a programmatic joint venture with a real estate developer involving a $40 million capital commitment.
  • Represented a privately held, SEC registered investment advisory firm in the negotiation and closing of a programmatic joint venture (and subsequent joint venture acquisitions of real property) with a real estate developer.
  • Represented two purchasers in the joint acquisition of a brand marketing company.
  • Represented numerous dental practices in the sale of their practices, including both acquisitions and sales of assets and equity.  
  • Represented an institutional investor in the negotiation and closing of numerous joint ventures with real estate developers and operators throughout the United States.
  • Represented a real estate developer in the acquisition and disposition of equity in real estate joint ventures.
  • Represented numerous real estate brokers in the negotiation of brokerage commission agreements, consulting and employment agreements and finder’s agreements.
  • Represented high net worth investors in the purchase of convertible securities and alternative investments.

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Education

  • J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 2008
  • B.A., magna cum laude, City University of New York, Queens College, 2003

Admissions

  • New York