NEW YORK CITY—The law firm of White & Case has signed a440,000 square foot long-term lease for its New York office at 1221Avenue of the Americas. The firm will relocate to 1221 in 2017 in amove that was expected when McGraw-Hill revealed it was vacating thespace. The leased space includes the top floors in thebuilding, as well as below grade space.
The tenant was represented by Ken Siegel, Tom Doughty and LisaKiell of Jones Lang LaSalle. The landlord, the RockefellerGroup, was represented by an in-house team led by Ed Guiltinan,along with a Cushman & Wakefield brokerage team led byexecutive vice chairman John Cefaly.
The lease brings total new leasing activity at 1221 Avenue ofthe Americas to more than 700,000 square feet over the past 18months. New leases and renewals have totaled more than 1.5million square feet over the past 36 months.
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Rayna Katz
Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
