The law firm had retained the services of the New York Capital Markets group of Jones Lang LaSalle to sell the site, which Cadwalader reportedly paid $20 million for in 1983. Cadwalader was represented by Noble Carpenter, managing director, Mark Marasciullo, senior vice president, and Jay Miele, associate. Lalezarian was repped in house by Frank Lalezarian. When the sale was announced last June Carpenter noted that the site would appeal to someone interested in residential conversion.

The site is the result of combining three 80-year-old office buildings into a single modern complex. Due to Cadwalader's expansion, it took up the entire site and eventually took space across the street at 125 Maiden Lane. Once it outgrew both sites, the firm began looking elsewhere and earlier this year inked a 20-year lease for 460,000 sf at the Brookfield Properties-owned 0ne World Financial.

100 Maiden Lane was fully redeveloped in 1984 earning it the New York City Chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association award for "Best Major Alteration of the Year," in 1985. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has called Lower Manhattan home since 1792.