Luna Barakat is a commercial real estate attorney with more than ten years of legal experience. Her practice focuses on sophisticated leasing and real estate transactions involving shopping centers, mixed-use developments, office properties, industrial assets, and freestanding retail sites.
Luna represents landlords and property owners throughout the life cycle of commercial real estate transactions, from initial deal structuring and lease negotiation through construction, operation, redevelopment, transfer, and enforcement. Her work often involves complex retail and mixed-use assets where legal, operational, and economic issues intersect, including use and exclusivity protections, occupancy and co-tenancy provisions, construction and improvement obligations, assignment and guaranty structures, and redevelopment and lender considerations. She also advises on property rights and operational issues affecting access, parking, signage, easements, restrictive covenants, and title matters.
A regular participant in ICSC’s annual law conference and an occasional presenter on retail leasing matters, Luna remains closely engaged with the legal and business issues shaping the retail industry. She views a lease not simply as a legal document, but as the framework for how a property, a business, and a long-term landlord-tenant relationship will operate—and negotiates with that broader purpose in mind.