Spencer Romoff advises owners, developers and investors on sophisticated real estate transactions, including development, financing, acquisitions and dispositions, leasing and broad transactional matters. His expertise includes advising clients on complex joint ventures, investments and capital structures and draws upon his decades of legal, business and executive leadership experience. Spencer brings a practical, client-side perspective to complex real estate projects and corporate transactions.

His practice includes joint venture formations and agreements; debt and equity financing, including construction financing, bridge loans and permanent and other term debt; acquisitions and dispositions; real estate development and construction; adaptive reuse and rehabilitation; leasing, distressed debt restructuring and note purchases; development-related agreements; and tax-sensitive ownership and investment structures.

Spencer also has significant executive and in-house legal experience. He co-founded and managed a real estate investment and development business, overseeing transactional and operational matters, including strategic partner arrangements, financings, acquisitions and dispositions, development and asset management. Prior to that, he served for 15 years as executive vice president and general counsel of a privately held real estate investment and development company, overseeing development projects and investments with an aggregate value exceeding $3 billion across New York City, Westchester County, Miami and Jersey CityNJ.

In his role as EVP and GC, Spencer had P&L responsibility and led critical legal and business aspects of the firm’s development projects, ownership and investment structures, debt and equity financings, acquisitions and dispositions, corporate structuring, strategic execution and risk management.

He began his career as a tax lawyer advising on real estate, corporate, partnership and limited liability company tax matters.

Education

New York University, LL.M. in Taxation

Washington College of Law, American University, J.D., cum laude

University of Texas at Austin, B.A.

News & Publications

• Spencer Romoff Joins Rivkin Radler’s Expanding Real Estate Group
  September 8 | 2026

• Co-led the negotiation on behalf of the landlord in securing a major U.S. bank in the triple net lease of 2.44 million square feet of office space at One Bryant Park, including complex maintenance, capital replacement and operational matters, as well as navigating rating agency confirmations and lender approvals related to existing CMBS financing.
• Negotiated and drafted a long-term ground lease for his client, as tenant, with a non-profit church, as landlord, and other matters relating to the development of high-end for-sale condominium units and new church facilities in Florida.
• Represented his client in the placement of preferred equity financing and negotiations involving J.P. Morgan, as senior lender, and the borrower in connection with a Brooklyn development site, including negotiation of preferred loan provisions within the joint venture agreement, preferred equity-related provisions within the senior loan agreement and a preferred equity subordination agreement.
• Represented his client as purchaser and borrower in connection with the acquisition of a distressed Manhattan office building from a private credit lender, including the assumption of the then-existing loan, with a negotiated reduction in principal due under the loan.
• Represented his client, as property owner and co-developer, in connection with a highly tax-structured joint venture agreement for the development of a Robert A.M. Stern-designed condominium project on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
• Represented his client in the acquisition of a complex distressed note, including the delivery of a deed-in-lieu agreement for certain borrower-owned mortgaged properties and an assignment of rights as leasehold mortgagee under a ground lease between the original borrower and landlord, a non-profit organization, relating to additional development parcels owned by the landlord.