Nathalia Bernardo

Nathalia Bernardo is a member of the in-house legal team at Rockwood Capital, LLC, serving as Associate General Counsel, Real Estate. Prior to joining Rockwood, Ms. Bernardo was a partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP and Paul Hastings LLP. Ms. Bernardo has represented clients in a broad range of real estate transactions, including joint ventures, ground leases, acquisitions and dispositions, and complex development and management agreements for properties in multiple asset classes. Ms. Bernardo has advised real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity firms, institutional real estate investment advisers, family offices, high net worth individuals, and closely held real estate owners, developers, and investors in domestic and international transactions involving residential, commercial, industrial, gaming/hospitality, and mixed-use assets. Ms. Bernardo has also counseled nonprofit organizations on real estate and other transactional matters. Her notable work includes advising the Intrepid Museum Foundation in its acquisition of the space shuttle Enterprise from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Ms. Bernardo serves as an adjunct professor of law at Cornell University Law School and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She is also a co-vice chair of the Urban Land Institute New York Mentor Program, a member of the Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis (CREUA) Advisory Board at The George Washington University, and a member of CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) in New York. Ms. Bernardo received a Bachelor of Business Administration, summa cum laude, from The George Washington University and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Boston College Law School. Ms. Bernardo is admitted to practice law in the States of New York and New Jersey.