John A. Sym

John is a native of New York City and worked for over twenty years as an attorney in the real estate sections of large law firms in the greater New York and Boston areas. He has broad experience counseling developers, owners, users and lenders in a wide array of commercial transactions including the sale, acquisition, development, financing and zoning of various properties. He focuses his practice particularly upon representing landlords and tenants in the leasing of office, retail, warehouse, high technology and laboratory space.

Currently, John lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife and two children. He is admitted to practice, and actively represents clients, in both New York and Massachusetts, and is a member of the City Bar Association of New York, the Massachusetts Bar Association and the National Lawyers Association. Through Columbia University's Advanced Interdisciplinary Legal Education program, in 1989 John simultaneously received both his B.A., magna cum laude, from Columbia College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.