Real Estate Finance
The commercial real estate finance sector is constantly evolving. Investor, owner, and lender success is often driven by recognizing and adjusting to market changes. Seyfarth’s Real Estate Finance lawyers work closely with our clients to help them achieve their goals in this dynamic and competitive environment.
HOW WE HELP
Our attorneys draw on a foundation of experience and knowledge of evolving lending and capital markets, shifting industry trends, and complex lending principles to deliver business-driven legal counsel that carries deals across the finish line. With experienced professionals from coast to coast, our team collaborates with our companion practice groups in order to achieve timely, practical, and comprehensive results. Accordingly, when necessary or appropriate to close transactions, we look to our colleagues in various areas, including tax, construction, leasing, fund formation, institutional investment, securities, environmental, bankruptcy, litigation, labor & employment, and ERISA.
Attorneys on our team focus on rapidly evolving areas, including infrastructure investment and construction, data centers and health care, as well as cannabis, cybersecurity, blockchain technology, and opportunity zone funds (for example, addressing how opportunity zone transactions impact loan structure and documentation). Our lawyers and our companion practice group members also meet regularly to share best practices and discuss industry related legal matters and recent developments, such as CFIUS, HVCRE, SOFR, PACE, Corporate Transparency Act, and state-specific trends that impact our clients’ lending positions.
A testament to our high regard in the marketplace, Seyfarth’s Real Estate Finance attorneys work with many of the nation’s leading lenders, including three of the top five mortgage originators among insurance companies and the top three largest commercial loan servicers.
OUR SERVICES
Our attorneys handle a wide variety of transactions and have experience across the full spectrum of real estate finance, including:
- Permanent, bridge, and construction financings
- Capital market loans, including CMBS and CLO financings
- Portfolio loans, including multistate, property, lender, and borrower facilities
- Health care finance
- Mezzanine and A/B tiered structures
- Leasehold and leased fee mortgage financing
- Delaware Statutory Trusts (DSTs)
- Preferred equity structures
- Repurchase and loan-on-loan financings
- Loan acquisitions and sales
- Sale/leaseback arrangements
- Letter-of-credit-enhanced transactions
- Participations and other syndicated arrangements
- Loan administration and servicing, loan assumptions and modifications
- Default, workout, foreclosure, deed-in-lieu, and bankruptcy matters
THE SEYFARTH EXPERIENCE
Our Real Estate Finance team understands that an efficient, streamlined loan process helps clients achieve their goals regarding profitability and borrower satisfaction.
Tailored Solutions to Add Value to Lending Programs and Real Estate Portfolios. We have a track record of using technology, process improvement, and innovative staffing to create tailored solutions for our real estate finance clients that reduce deal cycle times, improve processes, and reduce costs. Our technology provides 24/7 access to matter tracking—including checklists, critical dates/deadlines, and a document library.
Real Estate Due Diligence Hub. Our team includes attorneys, paralegals, and support staff—known as the Hub—who handle the often extensive, cost-sensitive due diligence work common in commercial real estate transactions, including, depending on the transaction, title, survey, and lease reviews. The Hub allows us to deliver customized, efficient, high-quality work product, while allowing for cost predictability.
Upon request, we also help our lending clients through the process of revising form loan documents or, in some cases, creating loan forms for new or updated lending platforms.
Our capabilities are best showcased through real examples of our work. Examples of recent transactions include:
- Represented a financial services company in a $1.1 billion mortgage loan to a prominent institutional real estate investor secured by 147 industrial properties.
- Represented a community bank in an approximate $69 million bridge loan for the acquisition of six health care facilities in Pennsylvania.
- Represented a regional bank in a $70 million syndicated bridge-to-HUD loan in connection with the borrower’s acquisition of seven health care facilities across six states. The portfolio included skilled nursing, assisted living, and independent living facilities. Our client acted as administrative agent and as a lender in the syndication.
- Represented a national bank, as CMBS master servicer, in a first-of-its-kind commercial loan servicing transaction involving a consent request for a series of equity transfers which resulted in the roll-up, into an UPREIT structure, of a portfolio of 40 office buildings located across the US valued at approximately $3 billion.
- Represented a major bank in a $1.04 billion syndicated construction loan to finance three luxury rental and condominium apartment towers in New York City.
- Represented a real estate investment firm in the origination of a $23 million senior mezzanine loan to finance the renovation of a historic hotel in Minnesota. The financing involved state and federal tax credit bridge lenders and several layers of equity investment.
- Represented a national bank in connection with a $145 million construction loan for the redevelopment of a Class-A office building in San Francisco. We also represented the bank in negotiating a major lease to a single tenant and a subsequent loan amendment to $162 million to accommodate said lease.
- Represented a debt fund in a $9.3 million mortgage loan secured by a multifamily building in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Represented a financial institution in the negotiation of a forbearance agreement for a $125 million mortgage loan on a hotel in New York.
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Recognition
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Recognition
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Recognition
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Recognition
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Five Seyfarth Attorneys Earn ConnectCRE 2023 Lawyers in Real Estate Awards
The commercial real estate finance sector is constantly evolving. Investor, owner, and lender success is often driven by recognizing and adjusting to market changes. Seyfarth’s Real Estate Finance lawyers work closely with our clients to help them achieve their goals in this dynamic and competitive environment.
HOW WE HELP
Our attorneys draw on a foundation of experience and knowledge of evolving lending and capital markets, shifting industry trends, and complex lending principles to deliver business-driven legal counsel that carries deals across the finish line. With experienced professionals from coast to coast, our team collaborates with our companion practice groups in order to achieve timely, practical, and comprehensive results. Accordingly, when necessary or appropriate to close transactions, we look to our colleagues in various areas, including tax, construction, leasing, fund formation, institutional investment, securities, environmental, bankruptcy, litigation, labor & employment, and ERISA.
Attorneys on our team focus on rapidly evolving areas, including infrastructure investment and construction, data centers and health care, as well as cannabis, cybersecurity, blockchain technology, and opportunity zone funds (for example, addressing how opportunity zone transactions impact loan structure and documentation). Our lawyers and our companion practice group members also meet regularly to share best practices and discuss industry related legal matters and recent developments, such as CFIUS, HVCRE, SOFR, PACE, Corporate Transparency Act, and state-specific trends that impact our clients’ lending positions.
A testament to our high regard in the marketplace, Seyfarth’s Real Estate Finance attorneys work with many of the nation’s leading lenders, including three of the top five mortgage originators among insurance companies and the top three largest commercial loan servicers.
OUR SERVICES
Our attorneys handle a wide variety of transactions and have experience across the full spectrum of real estate finance, including:
- Permanent, bridge, and construction financings
- Capital market loans, including CMBS and CLO financings
- Portfolio loans, including multistate, property, lender, and borrower facilities
- Health care finance
- Mezzanine and A/B tiered structures
- Leasehold and leased fee mortgage financing
- Delaware Statutory Trusts (DSTs)
- Preferred equity structures
- Repurchase and loan-on-loan financings
- Loan acquisitions and sales
- Sale/leaseback arrangements
- Letter-of-credit-enhanced transactions
- Participations and other syndicated arrangements
- Loan administration and servicing, loan assumptions and modifications
- Default, workout, foreclosure, deed-in-lieu, and bankruptcy matters
THE SEYFARTH EXPERIENCE
Our Real Estate Finance team understands that an efficient, streamlined loan process helps clients achieve their goals regarding profitability and borrower satisfaction.
Tailored Solutions to Add Value to Lending Programs and Real Estate Portfolios. We have a track record of using technology, process improvement, and innovative staffing to create tailored solutions for our real estate finance clients that reduce deal cycle times, improve processes, and reduce costs. Our technology provides 24/7 access to matter tracking—including checklists, critical dates/deadlines, and a document library.
Real Estate Due Diligence Hub. Our team includes attorneys, paralegals, and support staff—known as the Hub—who handle the often extensive, cost-sensitive due diligence work common in commercial real estate transactions, including, depending on the transaction, title, survey, and lease reviews. The Hub allows us to deliver customized, efficient, high-quality work product, while allowing for cost predictability.
Upon request, we also help our lending clients through the process of revising form loan documents or, in some cases, creating loan forms for new or updated lending platforms.
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Our capabilities are best showcased through real examples of our work. Examples of recent transactions include:
- Represented a financial services company in a $1.1 billion mortgage loan to a prominent institutional real estate investor secured by 147 industrial properties.
- Represented a community bank in an approximate $69 million bridge loan for the acquisition of six health care facilities in Pennsylvania.
- Represented a regional bank in a $70 million syndicated bridge-to-HUD loan in connection with the borrower’s acquisition of seven health care facilities across six states. The portfolio included skilled nursing, assisted living, and independent living facilities. Our client acted as administrative agent and as a lender in the syndication.
- Represented a national bank, as CMBS master servicer, in a first-of-its-kind commercial loan servicing transaction involving a consent request for a series of equity transfers which resulted in the roll-up, into an UPREIT structure, of a portfolio of 40 office buildings located across the US valued at approximately $3 billion.
- Represented a major bank in a $1.04 billion syndicated construction loan to finance three luxury rental and condominium apartment towers in New York City.
- Represented a real estate investment firm in the origination of a $23 million senior mezzanine loan to finance the renovation of a historic hotel in Minnesota. The financing involved state and federal tax credit bridge lenders and several layers of equity investment.
- Represented a national bank in connection with a $145 million construction loan for the redevelopment of a Class-A office building in San Francisco. We also represented the bank in negotiating a major lease to a single tenant and a subsequent loan amendment to $162 million to accommodate said lease.
- Represented a debt fund in a $9.3 million mortgage loan secured by a multifamily building in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Represented a financial institution in the negotiation of a forbearance agreement for a $125 million mortgage loan on a hotel in New York.
Related News & Insights
-
Sponsored Events
Feb 10, 2025
Seyfarth to Sponsor eCap25 Healthcare Summit
-
Speaking Engagement
02/05/2025
Seyfarth to Sponsor and Arren Goldman to Moderate Panel at Bisnow 2025 Charlotte CRE Market Kickoff
-
Sponsored Events
01/12/2025
Seyfarth to Sponsor CRE Finance Council 2025 January Conference
-
Media Mentions
11/13/2024
Katie Schwarting Discusses Trump Administration Deprioritizing CRE DEI in Bisnow
Recognition
-
Recognition
12/12/2024
Five Seyfarth Attorneys Recognized by Connect CRE for 2024 Lawyers in Real Estate Awards
-
Recognition
12/02/2024
Daniel Evans Spotlighted as Innovator in CRE by New York Real Estate Journal
-
Recognition
04/16/2024
Seyfarth’s Katie Schwarting Named a 2024 MCCA Rainmaker
-
Recognition
12/12/2023
Five Seyfarth Attorneys Earn ConnectCRE 2023 Lawyers in Real Estate Awards