Mr Daniel Evans > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Daniel Evans
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Partners
Career
Dan serves as co-chair of Seyfarth’s Real Estate Finance practice. He represents members of the lending and borrowing communities across all aspects of commercial real estate finance, from loan originations and loan sales, to workouts and restructurings. His work emphasizes the structuring and closing of mortgage and mezzanine loan transactions, including capital markets, interim/bridge, construction, and balance sheet loans, across the United States.
During the course of his career, Dan has handled a wide range of transactions—from small conduit deals to billion dollar credit facilities with several tranches of financing and preferred equity. He has worked on numerous financings of major office buildings, hospitality properties, retail and industrial centers, and multifamily properties, and is familiar with lender and owner concerns relating thereto.
Dan has also helped several clients establish lending programs and procedures, and drafted form loan documents in connection therewith.
Dan enjoys working with clients and members of the Seyfarth Technology Innovations group in applying technology to gain greater speed and greater efficiencies in performing legal work, and has successfully developed several technology solutions for clients. For large-volume clients, he applies Seyfarth Lean best practices and process maps, as well as Seyfarth Link web-based tracking and deal updates. Dan also uses form processing technology to streamline document drafting for lender clients, and was instrumental in the development of the firm’s Atlanta-based due diligence hub whereby diligence review services are quickly and efficiently provided by a dedicated team of attorneys and paralegals spread throughout the country.
Education
- JD, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Dean’s list
Constitutional Law Quarterly
Witkens Award
Jurisprudence - BA, Lehigh University
Dean’s list
Departmental honors
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
‘Friendly and accessible’, Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s broad real estate practice covers the gamut of asset types including data centers, healthcare, hospitality and hotel as well as commercial properties in retail and industrials. Household names like 7-Eleven form part of the firm’s client roster, with a wider base consisting of funds, financial institutions, banks, and REITs, among others. Paul Mattingly, located in the firm’s Atlanta office, acts as national chair of the real estate department, with managing partner of the Atlanta office, Steven L. Kennedy, taking the lead of the development practice group. Catherine Burns is a key name on investment transactions in Boston, as is Eric Greenberg on leasing. In New York, Daniel Evans is noted for his expertise on financing, loan, and restructuring work, while Robin Freeman, based in San Francisco, co-leads the national health care real estate & finance practice. New York’s Cynthia Mitchell is another key name, noted for her role as co-chair of the health care, life sciences & pharmaceuticals industry group. Alongside its transaction and finance expertise, the firm is also highly experienced on joint ventures, leasing, and private-public-partnerships, with further capabilities extending to more niche areas, evidenced through the firm’s Corporate Transparency Act Taskforce. In 2023, the firm gained partners Amy Simpson and Katie Schwarting from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner together with Neil Weisbard, formerly at Pryor Cashman LLP. That same year saw the firm open an office in Dallas.
United States > Real estate > Real estate finance
Seyfarth Shaw LLP‘s real estate finance practice spans the US, assisting lenders with the full gamut of transactions including construction financings, portfolio loans, capital market loans, and mezzanine loans. The team is also well-equipped to handle distressed real estate matters such as workouts, foreclosures, and bankruptcy. Recently the practice has expanded its reach and has started assisting with issues in California as well as focusing on infrastructure investment, construction, data centers, and healthcare. Daniel Evans and Jay Wardlaw jointly lead the team from New York and Atlanta. Evans centers his practice on structuring and closing mortgage and mezzanine loan transactions, while Wardlaw specializes in cross-country permanent mortgage, bridge, and construction loans. As a part of the health care real estate and finance team, San Francisco-based Robin Freeman is key to lending transactions in the healthcare space as well as concentrating on West Coast transactions. For distressed real estate issues Arren Goldman in Charlotte is the go-to. Also in Charlotte Katie Schwarting and Dallas-based Amy Simpson have expanded the team’s real estate finance expertise, both joining from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner in 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious