Courtney M. Wright

Data Centers

• Advised the administrative agent and bank group in the construction financing of a build-to-suit single-tenant data center in Quincy, WA.
• Advised the administrative agent and bank group in the syndicated term financing of co-location data centers in Silicon Valley, Chicago, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Portland, OR.
• Advised the administrative agent and bank group in the construction financing of a build-to-suit single-tenant data center in Santa Clara, CA.

Retail

• Advised a syndicate of eleven lenders in originating a $1.2 billion CMBS loan secured by The Galleria shopping mall in Houston.
• Advised an institutional lender in a $500+ million loan origination of a trophy-asset shopping center and the subsequent stand-alone securitization in Miami.
• Advised the lender on a $358 million ground lease and air-rights retail center financing and the subsequent note sale.
• Advised the co-lenders in the term financing of a Class A mall in Ventura, CA.
• Advised a lender in the financing of a luxury condominium tower with a flagship ground-floor retail on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Courtney M. Wright is a partner with Alston & Bird’s Real Estate Group. She focuses her practice on the areas of real estate finance and the capital markets.

Courtney has experience representing institutional lenders, investment banks, and debt funds in connection with the origination of commercial mortgage loans, credit facilities, construction loans, mezzanine loans, and loan restructurings for all asset classes. She has particular experience representing both lenders and borrowers in negotiating construction loans and other types of debt structures for the financing of data centers.

Courtney was named among the “2020 Top Women Attorneys in Los Angeles” by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Bar Admissions

• California
• New York

Education

• Fordham University (J.D.)
• University of California, Los Angeles (B.A.)