Ms Cynthia Mitchell > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Seyfarth Shaw LLP Offices
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NEW YORK, NY 10018-1405
NEW YORK
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Ms Cynthia Mitchell
Work Department
- Real Estate
- Development
- Leasing
- Acquisitions, Dispositions & Institutional Investments
- Real Estate Finance
- Joint Ventures
- Health Care, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals
- Retail, Wholesale & Distribution
Position
Partner, Co-Chair of Health Care Real Estate & Finance Practice Group, and Co-Leader of Health Care, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals Practice Group
Career
Cynthia focuses on representing clients across the country in the acquisition and disposition of various types of commercial real property, including health care facilities, office buildings, industrial properties, and mixed-use apartment buildings, and on the real estate-related aspects of transactions pertaining to corporate sales, acquisitions, and mergers. She also represents landlords and tenants in commercial use and commercial lease transactions, and lenders and borrowers in real estate finance matters. She has also done a substantial amount of work in the area of public housing development privatizations, including the withdrawal of several Mitchell-Lama projects from the Mitchell-Lama Housing Program and the conversion of Mitchell-Lama projects into condominiums or cooperative corporations.
Cynthia is the co-chair of the firm’s Health Care, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals industry group. She has significant experience representing health care clients in real estate transactions, with a focus on skilled nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and long-term acute care hospitals. She advises her clients in the acquisition and disposition of the assets, as well as, obtaining mortgage financing through a variety of different channels, including, permanent financing sources, Bridge-to-HUD loans and financing insured through the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). These transactions often involve assisting the client with other loan structures, including accounts receivables financing and alternate forms of subordinate debt. Cynthia also represents lenders in health care industry in (permanent and bridge) mortgage, mezzanine, and receivables based loan transactions.
Cynthia has been named by The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) as a Next Generation Lawyer in Real Estate since 2018 and has been recognized by The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) in both the Real Estate category since 2017 and the Healthcare: Service Providers category since 2018. She was also selected as one of Real Estate Weekly’s (Hagedorn Publishing) Leading Ladies in 2018. Cynthia was jointly nominated by the Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law and Best Lawyers (Woodward/White Inc.) to the 2017 Women of Influence Awards. Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters) named her as a Top Rated Real Estate Attorney in New York in 2018.
Memberships
Cynthia is the former president of the New York Chapter of the Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in the Law and continues to serve on the National Board of Directors. She is also a member of the Tri-State Local Advisory Board of Jumpstart, a nonprofit organization that focuses on early childhood education.
Education
- JD, New York Law School
Magna cum laude
- BA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
(Next Generation Partners)Seyfarth Shaw LLP routinely represents REITs, leading developers, institutional landlords, and operators of hospitality, industrial and retail centres in all transactional, financing, development and leasing activities. Recommended lawyers in Boston include Catherine Burns , Andrew Pearlstein and Eric Greenberg, who stands out for his leasing portfolio work. New York’s key figures include real estate finance partner Daniel Evans and Cynthia Mitchell , who specializes in assisting healthcare clients in acquisition and disposition of the assets, and obtaining mortgage financing. Paul Mattingly chairs the practice from Atlanta.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners United States > Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate United States > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- 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
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Government > Government contracts
- 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