Thomas D. Kearns

Thomas D. Kearns has significant experience in both real estate and corporate law. Tom represents owners, operators and developers in the acquisition, development, leasing and financing of office, residential and retail properties. He has extensive experience with joint venture, LLC, tenant-in-common and other agreements between co-venturers, and has negotiated and drafted sophisticated condominium and joint ownership arrangements on behalf of real estate and non-real estate businesses. Tom is highly knowledgeable regarding the impact of federal and state securities laws on real estate, and is a regular contributor to Lexis® Practice Advisor. He also regularly represents professional athletes and sports executives and other high-net-worth individuals in their residential transactions in New York. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Thomas D. Kearns included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Elected a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), class of 2015 Named a “Leading Lawyer” in Real Estate: Mainly Dirt by Chambers USA, 2022-2023 Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Real Estate Law annually since 2019 Named annually to the Super Lawyer by New York Metro Super Lawyers list since 2006 Other Sources of Feedback About Thomas D. Kearns Included on the 2025New York Metro Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2024 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2023 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2022 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2021 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2020 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2019 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2018 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2017 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2016 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2015 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2014 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2013 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2012 New York — Metro Super Lawyers list 2011 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2010 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2009 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2008 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2007 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2006 New York Metro Super Lawyers list

• C0-Chair

• Fordham Law School, Instructor
• Baruch College, Instructor

• Speaker, Commercial Real Estate After the Great Recession, Fordham's Business Law Practitioners Series, Spring 2012
• Presenter, Real Estate for Corporate Counsel, New York State Bar Association's Corporate Counsel Institute, October 11-12, 2007
• Lecturer, Pre-Contract Due Diligence on Commercial Real Estate Transactions, American Land Institute for Continuing Education, 2007
• Lecturer, Real Estate Investment Trusts, Stephen Newman Real Estate Institute of Baruch College, 2000
• Lecturer, Continuing Legal Education courses in Limited Liability Companies and Residential Real Estate, Fordham Law School, 1995-1999

• Board of Directors, Broadway Housing Communities
• Board of Directors, New York Landmarks Conservancy
• Real Estate Committee, The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services

• New York, 1985
• New Jersey

• American Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association