Zaheer Abbas advises landlords and tenants on commercial leasing, including medical office, retail, office, flex and restaurant properties. He also represents owners, developers and businesses in real estate and corporate transactions.
Zaheer joined KatzDay as a Senior Associate in 2021. His prior experience in England and the United States includes government, law firm and in-house roles in commercial real estate and corporate law.
Zaheer earned his law degree from the University of Liverpool in England and an LL.M. in Business and Finance Law from The George Washington University Law School. He is admitted to practice in Maryland, New York and the District of Columbia.
Representative Matters
• Manages a portfolio of more than 90 medical office leases for a multi-state injury care and rehabilitation clinic operator, handling new leases, renewals, amendments, expansions, relocations, subleases, commencement date agreements, work letters and terminations.
• Advises a private equity-backed primary care and urgent care platform on a seventeen-lease clinic portfolio, handling amendments, assignments, tenant estoppel certificates and negotiated early terminations as part of a post-acquisition portfolio rationalization.
• Serves as leasing counsel to a family-held Maryland commercial landlord, negotiating more than twenty retail, office, flex and restaurant leases and guaranties across its owned centers in Anne Arundel and neighboring counties.
• Represented the seller of a multi-tenant retail center in Frederick County, Maryland, running the tenant estoppel and subordination process across the rent roll and the assignment of leases through to settlement.
• Coordinated the simultaneous termination of leases at three healthcare locations in Maryland and Virginia for a multi-site operator.
• Represented a purchaser in the acquisition of a veterinary clinic property in New Jersey, including title and survey review and the lease to the operating company delivered at closing.