We solve your
real estate problems.
Services
Tenant Representation
DLS represents your company’s best interests, and only yours, the search, the strategy, and every point of negotiation, from the first conversation to a signed lease. The leverage comes from deep market knowledge, block by block, and from advising tenants exclusively, never landlords.
200+ transactions across an 18-year career. Representation is customarily landlord-paid, so it typically costs the tenant nothing.
Lease Advisory
Renewals, restructures, and expansions, with the leverage built before the conversation starts. The strongest outcomes are set in motion early: options mapped, timing planned, and the landlord’s incentives understood well ahead of a deadline.
Most renewals price best 12–18 months out.
Workplace Strategy
Before the search narrows, we translate how your team actually works, headcount, growth, the balance of focus and collaboration, into a clear plan: how much room, what layout, which trade-offs are worth making. You tour with a target instead of a guess.
The right footprint is settled before the first showing.
Relocation · Expansion · Renewal · Disposition · Acquisitions · First New Office
Approach
The right space and the right deal are two different problems. A lease worth signing solves both.
Discover
Consultation establishes the brief — space and building specifications, aesthetic preferences, the optimal structure and terms. We map how your team actually works today and where it is headed over the life of a lease, so the search is calibrated to the business rather than the square footage. Every assumption is written down and pressure-tested before a single building is toured.
Nothing is shown until the brief is right.
Research
A wide net, then diligent distillation — a comprehensive presentation of every option that fits the brief. We canvass the full market, on-market and off, surface availabilities before they are widely known, and reduce a noisy field to a short list that is genuinely worth your time. Each option is modeled on the terms that move money, not the asking rent alone.
The whole market, narrowed to what truly fits.
Negotiate
Experience, integrity, and attention to detail, converted into creative solutions and optimized terms. We negotiate from leverage built early — competing options kept live, the landlord’s incentives understood, and every clause read for what it costs across the full term. The work carries through the letter of intent, the lease, the build-out, and the renewal that follows.
Settled from leverage, for the tenant alone.
Experience
Two hundred transactions,
one side of the table.
Eighteen years advising tenants and never landlords. Datadog, from a first seed-stage office to a 100,000-square-foot headquarters at the New York Times Building. Two hundred more, many held in confidence.
Technology
Datadog · Pivotal · Relationship Science · Kaminario · Tegile Systems · Intent Media · Opera (Mobile Theory) · Labelium · Gray Scalable · AmPush · PadSquad · Tacit Knowledge · Revinate · Innovant · Akari · Byte · Lina · Praxel · Cubby Tech · Indaba · My Building
Health Tech & Life Sciences
RaySearch · medCPU · Flume Health · WellPass · BioNor
Financial
LarrainVial · Gentrust · Bergen Asset Management · Treehouse Investments · Imprint Capital · Group Argent · CIM
Legal
RPCK · Gabler McVeety
HR & Staffing
Sequoia · Interquest
Design & Architecture
Wondersauce · Union Design · Night After Night · Collectively · Dune Road Group · Equancy · DTE Studio · Zaskorski
Engineering & Construction
CES · RC Dolner
Consumer & Retail
Vita Coco · Alexis Bittar · Votto Vines · Gocu
“Dan just gets it — from truly understanding our needs and focusing us on high-value options, to protecting our downside as an active partner in negotiations.”
— CLIENT, NAME WITHHELD AT CLIENT’S REQUEST
Questions
What does a tenant representative cost a tenant?
In a standard New York office lease the tenant representative’s fee is customarily paid by the landlord out of the transaction, so DLS Commercial Real Estate’s representation typically costs the tenant nothing.
How does office tenant representation work?
DLS runs every engagement the same way: a discovery consultation sets the brief, an exhaustive search surfaces every option that fits, and terms are negotiated from leverage — objectives first, the tenant’s interests only.
