"[Jared] is a fantastic real estate practitioner, who has particular skill in handling complex development and sophisticated financing work, including distressed debt." - Benesch client, Chambers USA
Jared represents Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), institutional investors, lenders, private equity funds, family offices and other public and private investors, developers and owners of commercial real estate, with a particular focus on large scale development projects and corporate real estate.
This work includes counseling clients in the acquisition and sale of commercial properties, entity planning (including formation and structuring with respect to joint ventures, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations), leasing, development, corporate facilities management, asset management, commercial lending and debt restructuring.
Representative Experience
- Represented a shopping center REIT specializing in retail in its sale of an enclosed mall in West Virginia for $12.5 million.
- 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 one of the largest multifamily owners in the country in its disposition of an apartment complex in San Mateo, California for over $250 million.
- Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a grocery anchored shopping center in a suburb of Chicago, IL for $16,650,000.
- Represented a large national shopping center developer in its $58,000,000.00 disposition of a shopping mall located outside of Denver, Colorado.
- Represented client in the acquisition and development of two future Popeye's in Colorado for a total of $5,357,143. Drafted and negotiated all loan documents, joint venture documents, acquisition documents and all other documents required in connection with the acquisition of the properties and loan.
- Represented a fully-integrated real estate developer, owner and manager of retail properties in the conversion of enterprise-level equity held by an international institutional investor to senior debt held by that investor, which included redemption of the existing equity interests, creation of new debt instruments, modification of existing senior and junior debt documents, and amendment and restatement of the client’s joint venture agreement with the institutional investor.
- Represented a publicly traded REIT in its acquisition of three commercial truck repair garages/warehouses in Ohio and Michigan in a $10,250,000.00 sale-leaseback transaction.
- Negotiated multi-pronged risk transfer and risk management provisions to protect client.
- Represented a major North American automobile manufacturer in the disposition of two very large former plants, located in Ohio and Indiana.
