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 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 particular experience in the representation of institutional lenders, investment banks, mezzanine funds, and portfolio lenders in connection with the origination of commercial mortgage loans, construction loans, mezzanine loans, and loan restructurings for all asset classes, including the lender-side financing of data centers. She also works with real estate developers as borrowers in negotiating financing and conducting the loan documentation for property debt.

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., 2006)
• University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 2003)