Associate | Kriss & Feuerstein LLP

Overview Representative Matters Honors & Awards Publications & Speaking Engagements

Overview

Ernira Mehmetaj is an Associate in K&F’s Commercial Real Estate Transaction Group and in K&F’s Commercial Real Estate Lending Group.

Between both practice groups, Ernira represents real estate clients on a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, including joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, new developments, financings, and leasing. Her experience includes a wide variety of real estate assets, including office buildings, hotels, shopping centers, and multi-family apartment buildings.

Ernira received her B.A. from CUNY Hunter and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School where she was the recipient of multiple honors and awards. As a student in Brooklyn Law School, Ernira served as the Managing Editor of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law, and obtained her Certificate in Real Estate Law, with distinction.

Representative Matters

Represented a private real estate investment firm in the acquisition and financing of a JC Penney location in Queens, New York.
Represented a group of real estate investors in connection with their $320 million acquisition and $215 million financing of a 40-story boutique office building in New York, New York.

Honors & Awards

CALI Excellence for the Future Awards: Real Estate Transactions: Advanced Issues Workshop; Fundamentals of Legal Drafting: Transactions; and Law of Condos, Coops & Home Owners Associations
Jack Weprin Real Estate Prize
Brooklyn Journal of International Law Prize
Brooklyn Law School Pro Bono Award

Publications & Speaking Engagements

Ernira Mehmetaj, Kosovo’s Controversial 100 Percent Tariff: An Analysis of Its Imposition and the Issues Bleeding Into the Conflict Between Kosovo and Serbia, 45 Brook. J. Int’l L. 879 (2020).
David J. Reiss & Ernira Mehmetaj, The Promise and Perils of Shared Equity Financing, A.B.A. (Mar. 2021).
Debra Bechtel, Crystal Liu, Ernira Mehmetaj, & David Reiss, Sharing Your Home with Strangers: Common-Interest Ownership and Financing Options, Washburn L. J. (2022).

Education

Brooklyn Law School, J.D.

Deans List
Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Managing Editor
Certificate in Real Estate Law, with distinction, from Brooklyn Law School

Hunter College, B.A., Political Science

cum laude
Deans List

Admissions

State of New York