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Goodwin
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUILDING
620 EIGHTH AVENUE
NEW YORK NY 10018
NEW YORK
United States
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Position

Partner

Career

Diana Brummer, a partner in the firm’s Business Law Department, co-chairs the firm’s Real Estate Industry group. Ms. Brummer’s experience spans the spectrum of commercial real estate transactions with a particular emphasis on complex joint ventures, senior, construction and mezzanine financings (for both lenders and borrowers), acquisitions and dispositions, loan workouts, real estate recapitalizations and development.

Ms. Brummer represents a wide variety of client types, including institutional investors, pension funds, private real estate funds and public and private REITs, as well as their investment advisers. She also regularly counsels her clients on all aspects of managing distressed real estate assets.

Education

J.D., 1998 Cornell Law School (magna cum laude) Order of the Coif; Articles Editor, Cornell Law Review; Kerr Prize for Academic Excellence / B.A., 1994 University of Illinois (with distinction) Tyler Award for Excellence in East Asian Studies

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Real estate > Real estate

Goodwin‘s real estate practice group is regularly engaged by a variety of clients to handle real estate transactions throughout the US market. The firm has particular expertise in representing new and established fund sponsors, and investment advisers, in connection with the formation of fund investment vehicles. The firm handles transactions on behalf of such funds, and also represents a variety of owners, developers, REITs, and pension plans in a range of transactions. With an operational real estate practice, the firm is well-positioned to advise clients on a range of operational asset classes, from hotels, student housing, and data centers to mixed-use buildings and storage solutions. The team is led by co-heads Diana Brummer and John Ferguson, who are both based in the New York office, and have expertise in complex joint ventures, financings, and developments. In the Boston office, Freddie Akrouche represents clients in a variety of operational real estate, distressed real estate, and commercial real estate transactions.

United States > Real estate > Real estate finance

Goodwin ‘s real estate finance team is led by the co-chair of the firm’s global real estate industry group, Diana Brummer, from New York. Brummer has deep experience commercial real estate transactions and specializes in complex joint ventures as well as construction and mezzanine financings for both lenders and borrowers. Practising in Boston, Diane McCabe is co-chair of the real estate group’s joint Ventures and real estate finance practice and focuses on the hospitality and leisure sector and restructurings. Feather Moy-Welsh represents lenders in real estate secured financings.