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A successful real estate investor and attorney in New York City, Andrew Borrok is known for more than just his business accomplishments. Mr. Borrok has also become well-respected for his philanthropic efforts on behalf of such organizations as Citymeals-on-Wheels and Mt. Sinai Hospital.


Throughout his career, Andrew Borrok has made many strategic moves, including the acquisition of 14 Penn Plaza, an approximately 550,000-square-foot office building on 34th Street in Manhattan. Following this 2003 court-approved buy-out of almost 90 other partners, he refinanced the property, made substantial capital improvements and increased occupancy to more than 98 percent. Andrew Borrok sold the building a few years later for an approximately $250 million profit.


Mr. Borrok also engineered the recovery of 425 Park Avenue, a 31-story approximately 600,000-square-foot office building, following a major electrical fire that forced the evacuation of the tenants of the building. At the time of the fire, Mr. Borrok was the General Counsel and a General Partner of 425 Park Avenue Company, the partnership that holds the tenant’s interest under the ground lease for the property. Working with the partnership’s project manager, Mr. Borrok engaged contractors in order to achieve a temporary restoration of power to the building so as to enable the tenants to reoccupy their spaces within an approximately 2 week period following the fire.


Mr. Borrok’s legal work for 425 Park Avenue Company also included achieving a settlement and a release of the partnership and all of the partners without the payment of any damages in an $85 million asbestos lawsuit. Over the past approximately 9 years, Mr. Borrok has managed business relationships and other litigation for the partnership including relationships with the ground lessor, the insurance company and the major tenants of the building.


Andrew Borrok also has worked for numerous international firms where he played important roles in several financial restructurings, bankruptcy settlements and multi-million dollar real estate transactions. These firms included Arent Fox LLP, Proskauer Rose LLP and Bear Stearns. While serving as Of Counsel at Arent Fox he negotiated the repayment of the unsecured creditors committee in the Clift Hotel bankruptcy.


Much of Andrew Borrok’s free time is spent working with charitable organizations that are close to his heart. At Citymeals-on-Wheels, Mr. Borrok serves on the Board of Directors, is a major contributor, and works a volunteer, delivering meals to frail, homebound elderly on weekends. Andrew Borrok also supports Mt. Sinai Hospital through various charitable efforts. Mr. Borrok is a “pet partner” and supports Delta Society, which works to improve patients’ health and emotional well-being through the use of therapy animals. Andrew Borrok has also volunteered as an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County, New York and served as a member of the 34th Street Partnership Board of Directors.


Andrew Borrok earned his BA from Columbia College, where he won the James Christopher Caraley Memorial Prize. Following his undergraduate years at Columbia, Mr. Borrok received a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he won a CALI Excellence for the Future Award. He also earned an MBA from Columbia Business School.


Andrew Borrok is a skillful chef, having taken classes at the French Culinary Institute in New York City and studying privately with certain well known chefs including Pascal Berec.


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