ArentFox Schiff advises on a combination of tax-exempt bond financing, tax credits, and bankruptcies as well as a wide range of financing and transactions that includes sales and dispositions along with loan extensions and distressed assets. The team covers a broad range of real estate sectors spanning hospitality, sports, and senior living together with environmental real estate aspects, drawing on the firm’s dedicated environmental practice group. Thomas Castiello heads the national practice out of Washington DC and has wide reaching real estate knowledge including with public charter schools. Co-chair of the hospitality industry group, Kimberly Wachen, regularly undertakes transaction structuring, negotiation, and closings for publicly traded corporations, among others. In the same office, Kenneth Jacobs, noted for his retail and senior living expertise, as well as real estate transaction attorneys David Martin and Bryson Filbert are key names. In New York, co-managing partner Christine McGuiness is active on a blend of real estate and corporate financing and lending cases as well as transactions in luxury assets like corporate jets.
Key clients
- DLC Management Corporation
- FCP
- DSC Partners
- Sterling Equities
- Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School
Work highlights
- Represented DLC Management Corporation affiliates in separate transactions involving 15 shopping centers aggregating over $460M in transaction value.
- Represented Sterling Equities in the acquisition and refinancing of a 400-unit residential apartment complex with ground-floor retail located in Miami, FL
- Represented Mundo Verde in the acquisition, construction, and renovation of two parcels located in Washington DC for use as a charter school campus.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Thomas Castiello