Lauren A. Scarantino

• Representing financial institutions in the structuring and origination of commercial mortgage loans secured by various types of real estate, including hotels, office and retail properties, shopping centers, multi-family residential properties, and vacant land.
• Representing financial institutions in the structuring and origination of mezzanine loans.

Lauren Scarantino is a partner in Alston & Bird’s Real Estate Group. She focuses her practice on commercial real estate finance.

Lauren represents institutional investors, life insurance companies, commercial banks, investment banks, debt funds, and opportunity funds in a variety of complex single and multi-asset financings of commercial real estate lending transactions. These financings include permanent loans, bridge loans, mezzanine loans, mortgage loans for commercial mortgage-backed securitization (CBMS) programs, loan participations, loan assumptions, and sales and loan modifications, including loan pledges to warehouse facilities.

Lauren’s experience also includes loan syndication, acquisition and disposition of mortgage and mezzanine loans, A/B notes, participation interests and mortgage-backed securities, acquisition and disposition of commercial properties, formation of real estate joint ventures and partnerships, debt restructurings, loan modifications, and workouts.

Lauren was recognized as a New York Metro “Rising Star” in Real Estate by Super Lawyers.

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• Hofstra University (J.D., 2007)
• Georgetown University (B.A., 2002)

Memberships