{"id":1004095070,"date":"2014-04-21T06:25:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T14:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004095070"},"modified":"2022-12-09T02:29:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T10:29:19","slug":"global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Law Firm Signs 440 KSF Lease at Premier Rockefeller Center Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Scott Baltic, Contributing Editor <\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1004095074\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/white-case\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1440,1824\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;22&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1344541402&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;17&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"White &#038; Case\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg?w=808\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1004095074\" alt=\"White &amp; Case\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg?resize=237,300 237w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg?resize=768,973 768w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg?resize=808,1024 808w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg?resize=1213,1536 1213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>Powerhouse global law firm White &amp; Case L.L.P. has signed a long-term lease for 440,000 square feet at the Class A tower at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the McGraw-Hill Building, in Manhattan, it was announced Thursday by the landlord, The Rockefeller Group.<\/p>\n<p>The lease includes the top floors in the 2.5-million-square-foot building, as well as below-grade space. White &amp; Case will relocate to 1221, from 1155 Avenue of the Americas, a few blocks south, in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>White &amp; Case was represented by Ken Siegel, Tom Doughty and Lisa Kiell of JLL. The Rockefeller Group was represented by an in-house team led by Ed Guiltinan, senior vice president and head of leasing in New York, along with a Cushman &amp; Wakefield brokerage team led by executive vice chairman John Cefaly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite &amp; Case considered many locations throughout Manhattan, and their decision to lease space in 1221 affirms the desirability of midtown, and specifically the Avenue of the Americas,\u201d Guiltinan said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>The building is currently about 80 percent occupied, Guiltinan told <i>Commercial Property Executive<\/i>, and the White &amp; Case will have no effect on that. \u201cWe were able to structure this deal to terminate McGraw Hill\u2019s lease early at a time that enabled us to meet White &amp; Case\u2019s timing. We currently have a lot of activity that would bring the building to full occupancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White &amp; Case will initially take nine floors, but also has the right to increase to 9.5 or 10 floors for their initial space, Guiltinan added.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockefeller Group noted that this deal brings total new leasing activity at 1221 Avenue of the Americas to more than 700,000 square feet over the past 18 months and new leases plus renewals to more than 1.5 million square feet over the past 36 months.<\/p>\n<p>The building was completed in 1969 as part of the expansion to the west side of Sixth Avenue of the original 1930s-era Rockefeller Center. Sirius XM Radio Inc. is currently also a tenant. 1221 reportedly is among the largest Manhattan buildings to achieve LEED-EB certification.<\/p>\n<p>White &amp; Case has 40 offices worldwide and operates in 26 countries and was ranked by Law360 as the number-one global law firm in 2012. In addition, the firm was ranked in July 2013 by Business Insider as the 20th most prestigious American law firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerhouse global law firm White &amp; Case has signed a long-term lease for 440,000 square feet at the Class A tower at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the McGraw-Hill Building, in Manhattan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":1004095074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21784,21808,11,1600,21742,10,21747],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004095070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brokerage","category-featured","category-midatlantic","category-new-york","category-latest","category-northeast","category-office"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Global Law Firm Signs 440 KSF Lease at Premier Rockefeller Center Location - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Global Law Firm Signs 440 KSF Lease at Premier Rockefeller Center Location\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Powerhouse global law firm White &amp; Case has signed a long-term lease for 440,000 square feet at the Class A tower at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the McGraw-Hill Building, in Manhattan.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-04-21T14:25:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-09T10:29:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1824\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Scott Baltic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/\",\"name\":\"Global Law Firm Signs 440 KSF Lease at Premier Rockefeller Center Location - Commercial Property Executive\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-04-21T14:25:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-09T10:29:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/61ac1450f3ffaa0e850b834c28526555\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg\",\"width\":1440,\"height\":1824},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Global Law Firm Signs 440 KSF Lease at Premier Rockefeller Center Location\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Commercial Property Executive\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/61ac1450f3ffaa0e850b834c28526555\",\"name\":\"Scott Baltic\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/Scott.jpg?w=96\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/Scott.jpg?w=96\",\"caption\":\"Scott Baltic\"},\"description\":\"Scott Baltic has been a contributing editor with Commercial Property Executive since 2011 and also wrote for its predecessor, Commercial Property News. He started writing about CRE in 1988 for a group of Chicago-based publications and in 1989 became the editor of Midwest Real Estate News. After moving on from there in 1991, Baltic continued writing occasionally about real estate, for publications like the Chicago Sun-Times, National Real Estate Investor, Urban Land, Shopping Center World and Architect\u2019s Newspaper. He earned a master\u2019s in journalism from Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism and has a bachelor\u2019s from North Park University.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/author\/scott-baltic\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Global Law Firm Signs 440 KSF Lease at Premier Rockefeller Center Location - Commercial Property Executive","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Global Law Firm Signs 440 KSF Lease at Premier Rockefeller Center Location","og_description":"Powerhouse global law firm White &amp; Case has signed a long-term lease for 440,000 square feet at the Class A tower at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the McGraw-Hill Building, in Manhattan.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/","og_site_name":"Commercial Property Executive","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive","article_published_time":"2014-04-21T14:25:18+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-12-09T10:29:19+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1440,"height":1824,"url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Scott Baltic","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@cpexecutive","twitter_site":"@cpexecutive","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/","name":"Global Law Firm Signs 440 KSF Lease at Premier Rockefeller Center Location - Commercial Property Executive","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg","datePublished":"2014-04-21T14:25:18+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-09T10:29:19+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/61ac1450f3ffaa0e850b834c28526555"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg","width":1440,"height":1824},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/global-law-firm-signs-440-ksf-lease-at-premier-rockefeller-center-location\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Global Law Firm Signs 440 KSF Lease at Premier Rockefeller Center Location"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/","name":"Commercial Property Executive","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/61ac1450f3ffaa0e850b834c28526555","name":"Scott Baltic","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/Scott.jpg?w=96","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/Scott.jpg?w=96","caption":"Scott Baltic"},"description":"Scott Baltic has been a contributing editor with Commercial Property Executive since 2011 and also wrote for its predecessor, Commercial Property News. He started writing about CRE in 1988 for a group of Chicago-based publications and in 1989 became the editor of Midwest Real Estate News. After moving on from there in 1991, Baltic continued writing occasionally about real estate, for publications like the Chicago Sun-Times, National Real Estate Investor, Urban Land, Shopping Center World and Architect\u2019s Newspaper. He earned a master\u2019s in journalism from Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism and has a bachelor\u2019s from North Park University.","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/author\/scott-baltic\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/04\/White-Case.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004095070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004095070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004095070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004619436,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004095070\/revisions\/1004619436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004095074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004095070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004095070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004095070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}