Vehicles for financing real estate can be as varied as the real estate itself. We guide clients through a range of secured lending and structured finance options.
UB Greensfelder’s real estate financing team advises clients on the wide range of decisions and challenges that borrowers and lenders face when structuring and completing real estate financings.
Who We Are
Comprised of members of the firm’s Real Estate and Corporate Practice Groups and supported by our commercial, environmental, regulatory, and tax lawyers, our real estate financing team brings an intensely practical approach to designing and completing transactions that match the parties’ needs. Our financing experience covers single and multi-family developments, industrial sites, hotels, regional malls, local shopping center developments, national retail power centers, condominiums, office, and special use sites.
How We Help
Contemporary real estate financing encompasses far more than the traditional construction and permanent loan model of project funding. The increasing difficulty of the development process, the availability of novel financing products, and the value inherent in real estate make for a confusing but potentially rewarding marketplace of ideas. While we’re experienced and efficient at traditional real estate financings, we regularly participate in the development of non-traditional arrangements to finance the acquisition, construction, ownership, and operation of all kinds of real property and real property interests.
We have helped our lending clients develop and implement transaction structures and techniques that are responsive to their needs and those of their customers and markets. We take pride in identifying and designing transactions to meet the special needs of particular kinds of participants in the real estate industries (including public/private partnerships, real estate investment trusts, the developers of long-term multi-phased projects, nonprofit or public developers, and corporations eager to monetize the value of their real property holdings). We frequently represent commercial and institutional lenders, equity participants, other capital providers, and capital users.
Why Clients Choose UB Greensfelder
We listen carefully to our clients and work hard to recognize and anticipate their needs. We also pay attention to emerging issues in real estate development and finance and have been able to contribute to some of those emerging developments. Our lawyers have structured and closed a variety of innovative transactions, including equity and debt-secured mezzanine financings, pooled collateral transactions, sale/leasebacks and securitized financings, participating loans, off balance-sheet financings, taxable and nontaxable bond financings, and a variety of agented and syndicated transactions.
