Pierre E. Debbas is a partner and founding member of the firm. Pierre has extensive experience in the areas of real estate and general business law. His practice focuses on the purchase and sale of commercial and residential real estate in New York City, commercial leasing, real estate related financing matters, representation of cooperative and condominium boards, foreign investors and small businesses. Over the course of his career, Pierre has been involved in thousands of real estate transactions and is instrumental in his firm’s annual ranking as one of the top transactional firms based on volume of transactions closed in NYC.

Pierre is frequently quoted and invited to participate in a variety of national and regional publications including the New York Times, Bloomberg TV, Fox Business, The Real Deal and Wall Street Journal. He is regularly a featured lecturer at several of the city’s largest real estate brokerage firms. In addition, Pierre is certified by the New York Department of State to teach continuing education courses on the topics of residential and commercial real estate.

Pierre has been nominated for Super Lawyers for multiple consecutive years which lists the top 5% of all lawyers in their respective practice areas as nominated by their peers and has an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review. In addition, Pierre has been named in New York Magazine’s Leaders in the Law as one of the top attorneys in NYC as well as Notable in Real Estate which is selected by CRAINS listing the top real estate professionals in the city.

New York

Hofstra University, B.B.A. in Finance, 2002
Hofstra University, J.D. with concentration in Real Estate Law, 2005