Siobhan O’Donnell > Ballard Spahr LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Ballard Spahr LLP
1675 BROADWAY
19TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10019-5820
NEW YORK
United States
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Work Department

Finance

Position

Partner, Practice Co-Leader of the firm’s Real Estate Finance Group, Leader of the CMBS Loan Origination Team and Bridge Lending Team

Career

Siobhan M. O’Donnell is the Practice Co-Leader of the firm’s Real Estate Finance Group and is the Leader of the CMBS Loan Origination Team and Bridge Lending Team. She focuses her practice on commercial real estate finance.

She represents investment banks, commercial banks, specialty finance companies, and institutional lenders, as well as real estate developers and owners, in a variety of real estate financing transactions. Siobhan represents clients in permanent and bridge loan origination, CMBS conduit loans, construction loans, preferred equity transactions, mezzanine loans, and other subordinate financing structures. She also has significant experience in other aspects of real estate transactions, including leasing and acquisitions and dispositions of real estate.

Admissions

Pennsylvania

California

Memberships

Ballard Spahr’s Diversity Council

Ballard Spahr Hiring Committee

Co-Chair, Ballard Spahr Summer Associate Program, 2013-2014

Education

Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law (J.D. 2006)
Member, Temple Law Review

Temple University (B.A. 2003)

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Real estate > Real estate finance

Ballard Spahr LLP ‘delivers an excellent blend of thorough knowledge of the law with commercial business savviness’, led by a sizeable national group of real estate and real estate finance experts, which includes Siobhan O’Donnell in Los Angeles; Thomas Hauser and Amy McClain in Baltimore together with Dominic De Simone in Philadelphia. The team is active on structuring, negotiating, documenting, closing, and servicing a broad range of real estate finance transactions, and routinely represent REITs and developers as borrowers in single- and multi-property loan transactions as well as in joint venture and preferred equity transactions. The firm has also expanded its work in the distressed assets and opportunities space.