Barry represents national, regional and local developers, owners, operators, lenders and investors on a broad range of commercial real estate matters across all asset classes.
These include acquisition, disposition, development and debt and equity financing of single assets, portfolios of assets and real estate companies; mortgage and mezzanine financing; joint venture agreements; and leasing.
Representative Experience
- Represented publicly traded REIT in the sale of a formers Sears in Cedar Rapids, IA for $3,500,000.
- Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of eleven retail locations across two states in a more than $22 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.
- Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of thirteen bank branch locations in a more than $21 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.
- Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of an affordable housing property in Texas, which involved collapsing a ground lease structure to sell fee title to the property, negotiating equity contributions to fund closing contributions by the partnership of the property-owning partnership and the defeasance and later redemption of bond financing.
- Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of five affordable housing properties in Texas totaling over $73,000,000, with three sales structured as partnership interest entity sales and the other two structured as fee simple sales.
- Represented a fully-integrated real estate developer, owner and manager of retail properties in the conversion of enterprise-level equity held by an international institutional investor to senior debt held by that investor, which included redemption of the existing equity interests, creation of new debt instruments, modification of existing senior and junior debt documents, and amendment and restatement of the client’s joint venture agreement with the institutional investor.
- Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of two affordable housing properties in Texas totaling over $50,000,000, with one sale structured as a partnership interest entity sale and the other structured as a fee simple sale.
- Represented a national vehicle dealership chain in the negotiation of a mortgage loan to be used as indirect financing for the future expansion of the client’s business and related acquisition of other assets.
- Representing a large national owner/operator of retail properties in the conversion of certain institutional equity interests to debt.
- Represented a large private equity fund in the negotiation of a preferred equity investment that converted to a mezzanine loan in connection with the redevelopment of a retail property in Texas. The capital stack also included senior debt and governmental grant funds.