Seaira R. Wolf

• Representing master servicers in the CMBS industry in single-site and multisite, multistate loan assumptions and transfers and with a variety of consent issues, including loan modifications, borrower restructurings, partial releases, condemnations, and construction and leasing issues; interpreting pooling and servicing and subservicing agreements; and obtaining rating agency confirmations.
• Represented an institutional warehouse lender in a $1 billion collateralized loan obligation (CLO) transaction.
• Represented an institutional lender as special servicer in the workout of two $700 million mortgage loans secured by a portfolio of mall properties.
• Represented an institutional lender as special servicer in the workout of a $190 million mortgage loan secured by a portfolio of hospitality properties.
• Represented an institutional lender as special servicer in the workout of a $188 million mortgage loan secured by the InterContinental New York Times Square hotel.
• Represented a national banking association in the acquisition of a $35 million office building.
• Represented a national banking association in the disposition of commercial real estate throughout the Southeast, Midwest, and Southwest.
• Represented a national banking association in commercial leasing transactions throughout the Southeast, Midwest, and Southwest.
• Represented a national banking association in the disposition of real estate and assignment of leases for market-area divestiture transactions.

Seaira Wolf is a senior associate in Alston & Bird’s Finance Group. She focuses her practice on commercial real estate finance and loan servicing. Seaira represents institutional and nonbank lenders, financial institutions, and servicers in a broad range of commercial real estate finance transactions, including commercial mortgage conduit, bridge, and construction loan originations, repurchase and warehouse facilities, and special servicing and master servicing matters.

Before joining Alston & Bird, Seaira was an attorney at a large international law firm, where she focused on commercial asset dispositions and commercial leasing matters, including in the retail banking industry.

In law school, Seaira was the print editor of the Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law and was a member of the Trial Advocacy Program. She also participated in the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice in the prosecution section, participating in juvenile delinquency trials and child support disagreement hearings. Seaira graduated cum laude from Florida State University.

Bar Admissions

• North Carolina

Education

• Loyola University (J.D., 2014)
• Florida State University (B.A., 2011)

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