Jay Neveloff
American real estate lawyer
Jay A. Neveloff (born 1950) is an American real estate lawyer known for representing Donald Trump and his companies. He is a partner in the law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.
Law firm management executive
Neveloff has been a member of the Kramer Levin Executive Committee for more than 20 years and is chairman of the Real Estate Department.
Legal career
He began in real estate at Marshall Bratter Greene Allison & Tucker in the early 1980s. He then moved to Rosenman & Colin. He became a partner approximately one year later, practicing in real estate and developing a client base that included The Trump Organization and Trump. In the summer of 1988, Neveloff joined his current firm, Kramer Levin, as a partner, practicing in the real estate department.
Trump relationship
Trump and The Trump Organization have relied on Neveloff for real estate counsel and related business advice for more than 30 years, in matters such as Trump Tower, Trump Palace, Trump International in New York and Chicago, the GM Building, and the Plaza Hotel. Neveloff was among Trump's friends at the 2017 Presidential Inauguration.
In May 2017, after Donald Trump tweeted about possible tapes of conversations between himself and former FBI director James Comey before his dismissal, Neveloff was quoted as saying he "spent hundreds of hours in Mr Trump's office while he (Trump) talked on the phone and never saw him record calls."
Government affairs
Neveloff's real estate practice intersects with regulatory issues.
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