Legal lease on Sixth

The law firm Arent Fox has just leased about 76,000 square feet at 1301 Sixth Ave.

The new lease at the 45story tower includes the entire 41st and 42nd floors of 60,820 square feet.

The firm’s lease also includes 15,000 square feet comprising roughly half of the 38th floor.

Howard Grufferman of Colliers International represented the law firm in the move. Grufferman declined to comment through a spokeswoman.

The Paramount Group building was represented by the JLL team of Frank Doyle, David Kleiner, Clark Finney and Harlan Webster. JLL also declined to comment.

The asking rents in the Sixth Avenue building, which sits between 52nd and 53rd streets, are in the mid-$90s per square foot.

The firm’s lawyers have been located at the 38-yearold, 28-story Rudin Management building at 1675 Broadway, between 52nd and 53rd streets.

Sources said the 350-lawyer firm — which has other offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles — wanted new contemporary infrastructure and design as well as the Sixth Avenue building’s larger rectangular floorplates with a center core, which work well for law firms.

In fact, Norton Rose Fulbright, Chadbourne 7 Parke and Leerink Swan are among the other legal tenants.

Insurance giant Swiss Re rented the top three floors at the end of last year.