Sean P. Leyden
111 Great Neck Road
Suite 503
Great Neck, NY 11021

350 Bedford Avenue
Suite 406A
Stamford, CT 06901

Phone 516-393-2262
Fax 516-466-5964
sleyden@gwtlaw.com
  Practice Groups
Finance and Real Estate

Year Joined
2003

Education
Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 1995)
Fairfield University (B.S., 1990)

Bar Admission(s)
Connecticut, 1995
New York, 1996

Court Admission(s)
New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division;
Connecticut Superior Court

Bar Affiliation(s)
New York State Bar Association;
American Health Lawyers Association

Biography
Sean P. Leyden, a partner at Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C., is a member of the firm’s Finance and Real Estate Practice Group.

Mr. Leyden, who joined the firm in 2003, specializes in real estate and corporate transactions, as well as in representing tax-exempt organizations, hospitals, physicians, physician groups and other health care providers.

Mr. Leyden has extensive experience in commercial leasing (representing both landlords and tenants); subleasing (representing both sublandlords and subtenants); commercial real estate financing (representing both borrowers and lenders), including fee and leasehold financing, permanent and construction financing and mezzanine financing; the purchase and sale of commercial real property nationwide, including office, residential and commercial buildings and vacant land for development; and the purchase and sale of residential property (including cooperative and condominium apartments).

In addition, Mr. Leyden has considerable experience in complex corporate mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships, as well as routine business and personal matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Leyden was an associate for six years in the commercial real estate department of Bingham McCutchen LLP’s New York City office.

Before embarking on his legal career, Mr. Leyden was an Assistant Vice President in the Credit and Risk Management Department at Morgan Stanley & Co., where he oversaw the company’s counterparty trading risk for fixed income products.

Mr. Leyden received his B.S. from Fairfield University in 1990 and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1995.

Publications:

Who's Who in Real Estate Law: Sean P. Leyden Long Island Business News, October 13, 2006
 
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