Lawrence R. Plotkin

Larry represents clients in commercial real estate transactions, including the purchase, sale, financing, development and leasing of all types of commercial properties. He has extensive transactional experience representing large big-box retailers and shopping center owners and developers on leasing, acquisition, development and financing (construction and permanent loans) transactions.
Larry also has experience in corporate real estate transactions (including mergers and acquisitions, private and public equity and debt offerings, sale-leasebacks and securitized financings) and in representing parties in transactions subject to bankruptcy proceedings. His practice also includes the financing, development and operation of renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
Experience highlights
Recent Representations
- Mastronardi Produce long-term leases
- AppHarvest chapter 11 filing and restructuring support agreement
- Mastronardi Produce $127 million sale leaseback transaction
- FirstGroup sale of retained Greyhound property portfolio
- Charles River Laboratories $295 million acquisition of Explora BioLabs Holdings
- Talen comprehensive loan amendment and $848 million revolving credit facility
- FirstGroup sale of Greyhound Lines to FlixMobility
- Wilhelm von Finck 16-year lease with Harry Winston for Fifth Avenue retail space
- Davis Polk Advises an Ad Hoc Group of Noteholders in Connection with Legacy Restructuring
- Jones Energy, Inc. Restructuring and Emergence from Chapter 11
- Dixie Electric chapter 11 plan of reorganization
- Dixie Electric Reaches Restructuring Support Agreement with Secured Lenders
- Perspecta Inc. $3.1 Billion Senior Secured Credit Facilities
- Davis Polk Advises Contura on the Sale of Powder River Basin Assets
- Davis Polk Advises Ruby Tuesday on Its Acquisition by NRD Capital
- Davis Polk Advises Cube Hydro on Its Acquisition of Hydroelectric Plants on the Yadkin River in North Carolina
Education
- cum laude
- Dean's Merit Scholar
- Member, Brooklyn Law Review
Professional history
- Counsel, Davis Polk, 2015-present
- Partner, Head of Real Estate, Chadbourne & Parke, 2007-2015
- Associate/Special Counsel, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Real Estate, 2001-2007
- Associate, Real Estate, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, 1993-1997
- Special Projects, Bed Bath & Beyond, 1997-2000
- Associate, Real Estate, Schulte Roth & Zabel, 1990-1993
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York