Jonathan Z. Kurry

Jonathan Kurry represents lenders, investors and developers in complex real estate transactions, ensuring their deals are sound and strategic.

He helps clients secure financing, manage risk, and grow and protect their investments. He also advises family offices and high-net-worth individuals on strategies to preserve their wealth, avoid disputes, and seize investment opportunities, in the U.S. and internationally.

He handles commercial real estate acquisition, leasing, financing and sales transactions for hospitality, office, industrial, retail, multifamily, retail and mixed-use properties, and public-private partnership projects. He is also U.S. legal counsel to cross-border investors and developers, especially those with interests or projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Clients benefit from Jonathan’s thorough due diligence, skill in resolving title, zoning and other real estate-related issues, tax and regulatory concerns, and efficiency in closing deals.

In advising family offices and ultra-high-net-worth clients, Jonathan mitigates risk, resolves employment and business issues, and addresses succession planning and philanthropy-related issues. He also optimizes tax outcomes and assists in scaling real estate investments through acquisitions, recapitalizations and strategic exits.

Before joining Vedder, Jonathan served as general counsel to a prominent national real estate development and management-focused family office. In that role, he gained a deep real-world perspective on everything from day-to-day operations to dealmaking and risk management. With that knowledge and experience, he balances legal, financial, operational goals and commercial realities such as timing, market dynamics and long-term impact, crafting legally sound, business-savvy solutions.

Experience

• $121,000,000 construction loan for the development of a 415-unit 4 & 5-story rental apartments community, a 150-slip marina and an 8,000 SF waterfront restaurant located in St. Petersburg, FL. Represented lead lender.  
• $135,000,000 construction loan with a C-PACE component for the development of Class A, 12-stories, 2 building, 300-unit market rate multifamily mixed-use property with ancillary office and approximately 29,535 square feet of ground level retail space in Miami, FL. Represented mortgage lender.   
• $32,000,000 construction & stabilization/mini-permanent loan with an earn-out for the development of an 85-unit multifamily rental apartment project located in Miami, FL. Represented lead lender. 
• $61,413,000 construction loan for the development of a 240-unit workforce housing project with 22,000 SF of retail, located in N. Miami, Florida. Represented lead lender. 
• $33,278,000 Fannie Mae financing of a multi-family complex in Opa Locka, Florida. Represented borrower. 
• $46,660,000 Fannie Mae financing of a multi-family complex in Miami, Florida. Represented borrower 
• $22,000,000 mezzanine loan for acquisition of a skilled nursing facility in New York. Represented lender. 
• $12,500,000 refinancing with an earn-out of commercial property located in Miami, FL. Represented lender.  
• $15,500,000 refinancing of 130-key hotel in Destin, FL. Represented lender.