Real Estate Finance and Capital Markets

We advise clients in structuring, documenting, servicing, and restructuring real estate debt and equity transactions, including those involving distressed assets. With more than 65 attorneys throughout the United States, we offer nationally recognized skill and experience, local market knowledge, and a comprehensive understanding of the issues that drive transactions and markets.

Our Real Estate Finance and Capital Markets Group is home to many of the nation’s leading lawyers who have played pivotal roles in developing, structuring, and negotiating an impressive range of complex, high-profile real estate transactions. This work includes helping clients resolve or pursue “legacy” assets to solve a problem or unlock an opportunity. Our active relationships with important industry participants help to identify opportunities and trends and to facilitate transactions.

We represent commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, finance and specialty lending companies, loan servicers, and private equity firms in the origination of new balance sheet, CMBS, and government-sponsored entity loans, mezzanine loans, joint venture and preferred equity investments, and intercreditor matters.

Our nationally recognized Distressed Real Estate and Commercial Loan Servicer Teams counsel lenders, master and special loan servicers, investors, and borrowers in loan restructurings, enforcement matters, loan sales, and rescue capital transactions, as well as loan assumptions and defeasances. We assist private equity firms in strategic investments, the purchase of distressed debt, and portfolio evaluation.

our services

Acquisition and sale of distressed real estate projects
Bond lease and sale-leaseback financings
Analysis and restructuring of residential, commercial, and mixed-use condominium projects
Assistance in the acquisition of leases and properties from debtors
Balance sheet, CMBS, and GSE lending transactions
Bridge loans
Commercial loan servicing
Construction loans
Credit-tenant, sale-leaseback, and build-to-suit transactions
Distressed debt sales and acquisitions
Enforcement actions, including receiverships, mortgage and UCC foreclosures, and guarantor suits
FDIC transactions
Forward commitments and take-outs
Ground lease transactions
Historical tax credit transactions
Loan assignments and participations
Loan origination programs
Loan restructurings and workouts
Low-income housing tax credit transactions
Master loan purchase and sale agreements
Mezzanine loan transactions
Military housing transactions
New Markets Tax Credit transactions
Note purchase financings
Pooling and servicing agreements
Permanent loans
Preferred equity investments
Private mortgage lender bankruptcy matters on behalf of borrowers
Property and loan portfolio transactions
Public-private partnership transactions
REIT and private equity revolving lines of credit and term loan facilities
Real estate fund formations
Real Estate Owned (REO) transactions
Receiverships
REMIC-related matters
Rescue capital transactions
Restructuring and redevelopment of distressed projects
Senior/subordinate lender, A/B loan, and intercreditor matters
Subscription loan facilities
Syndicated loan transactions
Warehouse lines of credit