Experience
Members of our real estate finance team specialize in the following areas:
- Conduit and Portfolio Origination Program Development
- Mortgage Loan Origination
- Participations and Subordinate Financing Origination
- Mezzanine Financing
- Construction Lending
- Loan Administration
- Special Servicing/Workouts/Foreclosures
- Master Servicing
- Secondary Market Advice
- Tax/Regulatory
Our team works closely with experts at Alston & Bird in tax (including REMIC), bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, healthcare, hospitality, ERISA, environmental, securities, banking regulation and litigation/dispute resolution to insure full compliance with all regulatory lending requirements.
Bringing Value to Our Clients
Attorneys from our practice have been in the forefront of many major innovations in the CMBS industry over the last 35 years, including working on the first shelf registrations of CMBS, drafting the basic form of ratable commercial mortgage loan documents for the secondary market, creating early standardized conduit programs and documents as well as early loan flow purchase programs and the development of novel structures in the creation and sale of mezzanine and participation interests. We are active participants in all key industry groups, including the Real Estate Roundtable, the CREF-C, the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate and Global Real Estate Investors.