Chris has experience counseling property owners, developers, businesses and governmental entities on a wide variety of real estate and real estate-related legal issues (e.g., development, acquisitions/dispositions, leasing, finance, zoning, and land use).
Specifically, Chris has represented both owners and developers in the purchase, sale, development, redevelopment and financing (CMBS and traditional) of a variety of commercial and multi-family properties. In addition, he has experience representing landlords and tenants in connection with leases and financing for retail, office, industrial and special use properties.
Chris has also counseled lenders and borrowers in the drafting and negotiation of loan documents for a wide variety of real estate-secured financings, including loans integrated with historic tax credits. In addition, he has experience representing lenders and borrowers in connection with public-private partnerships involving federal, state, county and local loans, grants and incentives.
Representative Experience
- Represented guarantor and its subsidiary borrowers in connection with a $530,000,000 syndicated mortgage loan secured by a portfolio of 35 shopping center assets located across the nation.
- Represented a leading international investment and management firm by performing all diligence and related needs for their purchase of loans in default for a total of over $600 million and subsequent foreclosures, involving over 70 properties in California.
- Represented a leading international investment and management firm in a transfer of membership interests to transfer 7 underlying real properties, involving a total value of more $51 million.
- Represented the seller in its sale of a retail shopping center in Rochester, New York.
- Represented one of Canada’s largest developers and owners of multifamily residential properties in connection with a CMBS loan in excess of $51 million for acquisition financing the equity joint venture with respect to a market rate apartment property in Texas.
- Represented a regional multi-family developer and property owner in the structuring and $43 million acquisition financing via agency debt and institutional preferred equity of a market rate apartment property in the Columbus, Ohio area.
- Represented one of Canada’s largest developers and owners of multifamily residential properties in connection with a CMBS loan in excess of $89 million for acquisition financing and the equity joint venture with respect to a market rate apartment property in Texas.
- Represented a regional multi-family developer and property owner in the $53 million refinancing of a market rate apartment property in the Columbus, Ohio area.
- Represented a developer in the acquisition financing for a 14 property portfolio of affordable housing multi-family projects in Virginia for a purchase price in excess of $50 million.
- Represented one of Canada’s largest developers and owners of multifamily residential properties in connection with all of its United States-based acquisitions and dispositions. As part of its dispositions, we have assisted the client with the sale of multiple multifamily properties in Texas and Florida, each with a sales price in excess of $50 million.