Overview
The complexity of real estate transactions requires a comprehensive understanding of the asset being financed. With the industrywide expertise of Maynard Nexsen’s Commercial Finance and Real Estate practices and our national geographic footprint, we have the know-how and resources to handle the financial structuring of real estate projects of every size – including the largest and most complex.
No matter how large the portfolio, we appropriately staff the deal to reach a timely, successful, and cost-effective closing. In addition, Maynard Nexsen’s full-service platform provides invaluable and seamless access to the strengths of our fellow colleagues throughout the firm whose practices are concentrated in such related areas as mergers and acquisitions, tax, economic development, construction, environmental, and bankruptcy to address issues that oftentimes arise during real estate financing. We understand the structuring and nuances of transactions and the issues that must be addressed to avoid potential devaluation and marketability of the underlying asset. We conduct thorough due diligence to uncover potential issues, analyze risks, and suggest resolutions to mitigate them. Working closely with our clients, we negotiate solutions that protect their interests — regardless of asset type — while constantly moving the deal forward to closing.
We represent sophisticated owners, investors, borrowers, and lenders in commercial real estate financial arrangements, including:
- Construction financing
- HUD/FHA mortgage insurance programs
- Fannie Mae multifamily loan programs
- Freddie Mac multifamily mortgage programs
- REIT transactions
- Ground lease financing
- Hospitality and timeshare lending
- Retail financing
- Bankruptcy, workouts, and foreclosure proceedings
- Multistate real estate loan transactions
- Bridge financing
- Loans intended for securitization, such as CMBS financing
- Defeasance
- Loan dispositions
- Foreclosures and deed-in-lieu transactions
- REO dispositions
Representative real estate finance transactions we have handled include:
- Regular representation of the owner of multi-family properties in connection with acquisition financings and non-recourse refinancing
- Regular representation of the developer in the financing and construction of various medical office buildings
- Regular representation of the developer in the acquisition, construction, and financing of various professional office buildings
- Represented the owner in refinancing of a retail outlet center
- Regular representation of borrowers in the financing and refinancing of multi-family properties throughout the United States
- Representation of European multinational lender in connection with cross-border ground lease financing for a private-equity backed real estate acquisition that involved the assumption of a pre-existing New Markets Tax Credits structure
- Representation of a multi-family developer and investor in connection with a series of significant permanent loan refinancing transactions across the Southeast, to include complex ownership restructurings as a part of each financing transaction
- Counsel to high-yield institutional lender in connection with a refinancing of a sponsor-backed multi-state real-estate secured credit facility in the data center space
- Counsel to regional lender on a club loan transaction for an institutional-class multi-tenant office building in Nevada
- Representation of a national bank in the re-finance of a portfolio of 35 restaurants in nine states
- Representation of international real estate investment firm in connection with a series of senior and subordinate loan transactions in connection with a significant residential development joint venture