Daniel S. Chertok

Daniel Chertok is a partner in Archer’s Real Estate Group. Daniel focuses his practice on real estate and construction matters, working closely with the firm’s environmental, land use, corporate, and bankruptcy groups. His experience spans from representing individual owners to publicly-traded companies. He represents owners and developers in connection with mixed-use, commercial, industrial, and infrastructure projects through all phases of the building process, beginning prior to the acquisition, including property due diligence, approvals, purchases, and financings, through the drafting and review of construction management agreements, licensing agreements, design and development agreements, including issues relating to risk management and project administration, through project completion and exit strategy. He also represents a wide variety of private companies, not-for-profit organizations, and government agencies in connection with acquisitions, dispositions, construction, leasing, joint ventures, financing, and other corporate real estate matters.

In addition to his transactional real estate and construction practice, Daniel counsels clients in connection with commercial contract matters, including representation of private companies, not-for-profit organizations, as well as government organizations in the drafting and negotiation of a wide variety of third-party agreements, including vendor agreements, licensing agreements and other service agreements.

Prior to joining Archer, Daniel was an associate in the construction practice of an Am Law 100 law firm and in-house counsel to a New York City-based real estate developer. While attending Brooklyn Law School, he interned with a nationally recognized real estate co-living company and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation during its biggest expansion since World War II, with $700 million dollars in new development. He was also the editor-in-chief of the BLS Advocate, an independent, student-run news site for the Brooklyn Law School community.