Commercial Lending

Representation of Commercial Lenders

• Represented nationally chartered and state-chartered commercial savings banks and non-institutional and hard money lenders on mortgage loans and commercial and industrial loans.
• Represented senior and junior lenders on bridge loans, construction loans, mezzanine loans, collateral financing, and preferred equity transactions.
• Represented lenders on loans for commercial, retail, office and residential properties including condominiums and cooperatives, multifamily properties, and industrial properties in New York and throughout the United States.
• Represented lenders on inter-creditor and participation agreements.
• Represented condominium boards in lending transactions.
• Represented private and institutional lenders in commercial mortgage foreclosure litigations for properties located in New York City, Long Island, and several New York Upstate Counties.
• Represented a borrower in connection with a commercial financing consisting of a term loan and a revolving loan in the aggregate amount of $21MM for an entity that acquired 16 Burger King restaurants on Long Island.
• Represented an institutional lender in a $21MM refinance of a commercial and residential building in New York City.
• Represented a private lending group in connection with mortgage loans totaling $50MM on various New York City commercial properties.
• Represented an institutional lender in connection with a $24MM bridge loan secured by a mortgage against a LIC hotel and affiliated business.
• Represented a borrower in an $18MM mezzanine loan in Virginia.

Representation of Commercial Borrowers

• Represented owners of buildings and shopping centers in commercial real estate loans.
• Represented businesses that borrow money for commercial loans and on real estate they own.
• Represented a borrower in a $505MM senior and mezzanine loan refinancing of a major office and retail building in the heart of Times Square, New York City.
• Represented a borrower in a $145MM senior and mezzanine loan refinancing of a 500,000 square foot office complex in Reston, Virginia.
• Represented multi-unit restaurant owners in extension and modification of their existing loan facility consisting of term and revolving loans totaling in excess of $25MM.
• Represented affiliated borrowers in various portfolio loans for the acquisition of two (2) shopping centers and one office and retail property in and around Indianapolis, Indiana, in amounts in excess of $20MM.