Barry Rosenthal, JBG
Barry spent more than 30 years in private practice repping real estate giants, then joined JBG on Jan. 1. For 20 years before that, he'd repped The JBG Cos., which holds a 23.6M SF portfolio of office, residential, hotel and retail space in the DC area. Now he looks at a broader range of company-wide issues, risks and processes (eg, investor matters, deal structuring, and tax and corporate planning). He tells us the company recently closed on its ninth real estate fund, this one for $680M. Some recent sales--TechWorld and Crown Shopping Center--come from buildings that Barry helped JBG buy. He grew up in Boston and attended Penn Law, interning for the Senate Housing Subcommittee one summer; after graduating, he joined the Legal Honors Program at HUD. He later joined housing firm Brownstein Zeidman & Lore as its 11th lawyer; eventually it grew to 75 and he became managing partner. In '95, he moved to Bingham, where he stayed until this year. Barry says one of his most memorable deals was when Brownstein bought its 200k SF 1401 New York Ave office in '86, then sold it in '88 before the recession. All three of his children are lawyers: his son is in Justice's Civil Fraud Division, his older daughter does consumer protection at the CFTC, and his youngest daughter is in the HUD Legal Honors Program--the same one in which Barry participated.
