Biography
Jason Eig is a real estate partner who represents banks, financial institutions, REITs, private equity companies, and other sponsors on real estate financings, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, and related matters.
His representations span a variety of disciplines with particular industry experience in healthcare, industrial, and office real estate matters.
Healthcare Real Estate Finance
Jason has extensive experience representing banks and other financial institutions in real estate lending transactions involving healthcare real estate assets having served as lead counsel on senior and mezzanine financing transactions for over 15 years throughout the United States.
Real Estate Acquisitions, Dispositions, and Leasing Matters
Jason has represented REITs, private equity companies, and other sponsors in acquisitions, dispositions, financings, and leasing matters for two decades. During Jason’s career, he has served as lead outside transactions counsel for clients, having closed over 100 acquisitions, dispositions, and financings in this capacity. He also regularly represents clients in commercial leasing matters with a particular expertise in the industrial and office spaces.
Outside the Firm
Jason and his wife founded the Eigs of the World Foundation, Inc. (www.eigsoftheworldfoundation.org), whose mission is to provide music and artistic opportunities, mentoring, and related financial assistance and support to the underprivileged, those with special needs, and marginalized children throughout the United States.
Jason is also the rhythm guitarist in the Montgomery Warlocks, a Grateful Dead cover band that regularly plays in the Washington, D.C., area.
Experience
- Served as lead outside counsel in connection with more than 100 commercial real estate acquisitions, dispositions and financings involving industrial, office and warehouse facilities located throughout the United States.
- Represented sponsor REIT in connection with a $100 million sale of large office complex located in Nashville, Tennessee.
- Represented lead agent and lender in connection with a $500 million financing secured by medical office buildings located throughout the United States.
- Represented lead agent and lender in connection with a $185 million financing secured by 19 skilled nursing homes located throughout the United States.
- Represented lead agent and lender in connection with a $400 million financing secured by 29 medical office buildings located throughout the United States.
- Represented first out lender in connection with a $240 million unitranche financing secured by 19 skilled nursing facilities located throughout the United States.
- Represented lender in an approximately $850 million construction loan financing involving the development of the Wharf in Washington, D.C.
News & Views
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Ranking
Blank Rome Attorneys Recognized in 2025 Best Lawyers in America®
Seth D. Lamden, Barry Abrams, Kevin J. Baum, Matthew A. Homyk, Regina Stango Kelbon, Christopher A. Lewis
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Ranking
Blank Rome Attorneys Recognized in 2024 Best Lawyers in America®
Russell T. Wong, Mark I. Rabinowitz, Kevin J. Bruno, Mark R. Haskell, Scott M. Kaplan, Sarah H. Frazier
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Honor
Blank Rome Attorneys Named to 2022 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll
Jennifer L. Carrier, Patrick F. Collins, Amanda C. DeLaPerriere, Vanessa C. DiDomenico, Oliver E. Jury, Dominique G. Khani
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Honor
Blank Rome Attorneys Named to 2021 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll
Jennifer L. Carrier, Jon Grossman, Oliver E. Jury, Jacob W.E. Kearney, Barry Wm. Levine, Dana S. Merkel
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Event
Movements throughout Time—How Black Social Justice Movements Shaped D.C. Culture
Lamiya N. Rahman, Brett A. Snyder, Gabrielle C. Phillips, Justin A. Chiarodo, Jason R. Eig, Robyn N. Burrows
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Honor
Blank Rome Attorneys Named to 2020 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll
Scott Arnold, Kierstan L. Carlson, Jennifer L. Carrier, Dominique L. Casimir, Ross E. Coe, Sara N. Gerber
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Webinar
Healthcare Lenders/Investors Playbook for Medicare Accelerated & Advance Payment Program (“AAPP”)
Blank Rome-Hosted Live WebinarKenneth J. Ottaviano, Karin H. Berg, Jason R. Eig, Elaine H. Scivetti, Heather Sonnenberg
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Alert
Coronavirus Guidance for the Real Estate Industry
Real EstateSamantha Wallack, Michael A. Scheffler, Beth Bernstein Connors, Elaine H. Scivetti, Samuel M. Walker, Martin Luskin
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Deal
BLANK ROME REPRESENTS BLUE FLAG PARTNERS, LLC IN REAL ESTATE FUND FORMATION AND ACQUISITION DEBT FINANCING FOR PURCHASE OF HOTEL IN NANTUCKET
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Ranking
Chambers USA 2016 Ranks Blank Rome Attorneys and Practices
Barry Abrams, Thomas H. Belknap Jr., Michael K. Bell, Susan L. Bickley, Daniel R. Blickman, Linsey B. Bozzelli
Recognitions
- 2024–2025, Real Estate Law, Washington, D.C., listed in Best Lawyers in America©
- 2020–2022, listed in Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll
- 2016–2019, Washington, D.C. “Super Lawyer” in Real Estate, listed in Super Lawyers
- 2015–2016, Real Estate Law, listed in Chambers USA
- 2014–2015, listed in Legal 500
Affiliations
Memberships
- District of Columbia Bar Association
- Maryland State Bar Association
Jason is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association and the Maryland State Bar Association.
Credentials
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
Education
- Georgetown University, BA
- Georgetown University Law Center, JD