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Goodwin

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United States • Real estate

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Real estate finance

Goodwin advises clients on both the lender and borrower sides across a range of debt-related matters, including portfolio evaluations and capital-raising transactions. New York-based Diana Brummer co-chairs the practice, bringing experience across the full spectrum of commercial real estate transactions, from joint ventures and mezzanine financings to acquisitions and loan workouts. In Boston, Diane McCabe advises on debt and equity investments and restructurings, while Co-chair Alex Jacobs, based in Santa Monica, handles the acquisition, development, and financing of commercial real estate assets.
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  • 'The Goodwin team has been a tremendous partners in some of our most complicated work due to a number of qualities, including great organization of many moving parts, clear distillation of issues and tradeoffs, and an understanding of our business that allows us to bridge business and legal issues and viewpoints. They are also indefatigable in churning through documents to meet tight deadlines.'

Key clients

  • AEW
  • AvalonBay Communities
  • BentallGreenOak
  • Boston Properties
  • Brookfield
  • KHP Capital Partners
  • LBA Realty
  • Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies
  • Medical Properties Trust
  • Rockwood Capital

Work highlights

Counsel to affiliate of client Beach Point Capital Management, LP with the closing of a $72.5 million loan to subsidiaries of a joint venture between Amzak Capital Management and Mast Capital.
Counsel to an affiliate of client Manulife Investment Management, with the origination of a mortgage loan in the aggregate amount of $58 million to an affiliate of another Goodwin client, BentallGreenOak, and RealtyLink, LLC.
Counsel to an affiliate of client Tikehau Investment Management S.A.S., as co-lender with TBO Funding LLC, with the origination of a mezzanine loan in the principal amount of $35 million to Gowanus 3rd Street JM, the execution of a Co-Lender Agreement by and between TKO and TBO, and an Intercreditor Agreement between TKO and Mortgage Lender.
Practice head

Diana Brummer; Diane McCabe; Alex Jacobs

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