Real Estate
Financing
We run a very highly-regarded real estate financing practice that includes the representation of real estate lenders, borrowers, and investors in transactions that range from relatively simply to highly complex -- and include both debt financing and equity financing. Our real estate transaction attorneys cover real estate financing of every nature and size.
With respect to debt financing, our lending clients include investment and commercial banks and other financial institutions originating, purchasing and selling loans intended for securitization, syndication, sale, participation and portfolio investment. On the borrower side, we represent developers, owners and operators in procuring financing designed to meet the needs of their particular projects. We have experience in a diverse array of real estate financing structures, including acquisition and construction loans, term loans, portfolio financings, secured and unsecured credit facilities, bridge financings and mezzanine loans.
With respect to equity financing, we assist developers, owners and operators to bring new cash into a deal in exchange for an ownership interest. This may be through a basic joint venture, partnership or tenants-in-common arrangement to a more complex private placement. Our attorneys are skilled at structuring equity deals that effectively balance the need for capital against “giving away the shop” -- and because equity financing often involves debt financing for leverage, we are also adept at addressing the concerns of your debt lenders to ensure those concerns do not inhibit the deal.
Graham & Dunn’s Real Estate team is also active in the real estate workout arena with experience in the representation of banks, servicers and investors in loan workouts and the purchase and sale of portfolios of defaulted debt. Our strength has been in the close coordination of the transactional, remedies, litigation and bankruptcy elements of troubled debt for investors, owners and other interested parties.
Representative Transactions:
- Represent institutional lenders in numerous construction and term loans, including loans involving the issuance of bonds by municipal housing authorities.
- Represent a fund client with respect to the equity and debt financing of various large multi-family complexes located throughout the Western United States.
- Represent a joint venture partner in acquiring acquisition and development financing for a hotel resort property in the Florida Keys.
- A developer client with respect to joint venture arrangements for the development and sale of various residential and mixed use condominium projects in Lima, Peru.
- Represent an asset portfolio client to refinance various term loans with addition of development lines; each loan separately secured by individual portfolio assets.
- Represent a family corporation in its financing and refinancing of various portfolio assets.
