We have experience representing both lenders and borrowers in areas including:
- Capital markets and securitized loans
- Portfolio loans
- Purchase money and refinance mortgage loans
- Construction loans
- Leasehold mortgages
- Mezzanine loans
- Letters of credit
- Loan purchases and sales
- Loan modifications, workouts and restructurings
We have handled transactions such as:
- Representing capital markets and other conduit lenders in mortgage loans secured by office, retail, industrial, condominium, multifamily residential and other real estate collateral
- Representing local “portfolio” lenders in various real estate acquisition and refinance loans
- Representing the construction lender for a mixed-use high-rise project in Chicago’s South Loop, a multistate single family development project and a multiphase residential condominium project in Evanston, Illinois
- Representing the preferred lender for a publicly traded fast-food franchisor in various leasehold and purchase money mortgage loans to franchisees
- Representing a boutique investment group as mezzanine lender to single- purpose entities owning various classes of commercial real estate
- Representing an institutional lender as lead lender and administrative agent in a syndicated mezzanine loan
- Representing the mortgagee in the negotiation and acceptance of deeds-in-lieu from and short sales by nonperforming mortgagors
- Representing the developer of various urban and suburban shopping centers as the borrower in acquisition, construction and refinance loans
- Representing a food distribution company as the borrower in a workout/ restructuring transaction involving a new refinance loan secured by mortgages on collateral in several states and subordinate loans by the SBA and various individual investors