Barry J. Guttman

Represented a buyer in connection with its acquisition of five properties leased to national retailer for an aggregate purchase price over $8 million.

Represented a large private equity firm in the sale of four multifamily apartment properties in Ohio for over $60 million.

Represented a large private equity firm in the buyout of its membership interests in a joint venture owning a hotel located in Illinois.

Represented Brookfield Asset Management in connection with the real estate and loan-related matters of its acquisition of a portfolio of 43 mortgage loans from Valley National Bank for over $920 million.

Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its $30,000,000+ acquisition of 16 properties located in Alabama and New York leased to a national retailer.

Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of forty bank branch locations in a more than $55 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.

Represented a leading international investment and management firm in its $8.2 million disposition of an office complex in Maryland.

Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of an affordable housing property in Michigan, structured as a partnership interest entity sale.

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 the buyer of a multimillion dollar warehouse facility in Missouri.

Represented the borrower on a $32 million CMBS loan secured by a grocery-anchored shopping center in Pennsylvania.

Represented a publicly traded REIT in the approximately $400 million disposition of a 16-property multistate portfolio of shopping centers.

Represented the seller in connection with the $1.32 million sale, subdivision and negotiation of an REA for the split redevelopment of a retail parcel in Ohio into retail and hotel uses.

Represented the lender of a $12 million mezzanine loan for a retail development in Illinois.

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.

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 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 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 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. 

Represented the developer in the development of an office building in Colorado, including negotiation of a co-GP joint venture, joint venture with an institutional equity provider and $73 million construction loan with a national bank. The development involved converting the use of the property and negotiation of related agreements. 

Represented one of the largest multifamily residential developers in the country in the negotiation of a $20 million preferred equity joint venture with an institutional equity provider for the ground-up development of a several hundred unit multifamily apartment complex in North Carolina. 

Represented the lender in a $49 million senior construction loan to finance the development of a multifamily residential complex in Colorado. 

Represented one of the nation’s largest multifamily housing developers in the sale of the partnership interests in three affordable housing properties, which was cross-conditioned with the sale of two fee simple affordable housing properties.

Represented a large publicly traded REIT in the acquisition of a multistate portfolio of 6 NNN Walgreens.

Represented one of the nation’s largest multifamily housing developers as borrower in a refinancing of one of their Ohio properties that involved a drop-down membership interest transfer, recapitalization of joint venture equity, prepayment of bond financing, collapsing of a complicated multi-tier ground lease structure with the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority and negotiation of a new $60 million Freddie Mac loan.

Represented one of the nation’s largest multifamily housing developers in the sale of a $109 million multifamily property in Florida.

Represented a consortium of multibillion dollar multinational investor funds in the real estate matters related to a REIT’s contribution of a portfolio of over 40 NNN properties into a joint venture between the investors and the REIT to serve as the seed properties for an approximately $1.2 billion NNN property platform.

Represented a distressed debt fund in the acquisition of lender’s rights to a defaulted mortgage loan cross-collateralized by 2 properties and subsequent negotiation with the borrower of a deed in lieu of foreclosure for the properties.

Represented a distressed debt fund in the real estate aspects of the acquisition of defaulted mezzanine and mortgage debt from a multinational bank secured by over 70 properties in 12 states, a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure transaction to take title to the underlying properties and negotiation of a new loan from the same bank to finance acquisition of the defaulted debt, which was secured by the portfolio.

Represented the owner of a power center in Texas in the sale of an outparcel for $2 million, which included a subdivision exemption and loan modification. 

Represented the seller of multiple office properties in California totaling over $40 million.

Represented one of the largest owners and operators of real estate in the world in the sale of a grocery-anchored shopping center in the San Francisco area for over $100 million.

Represented the seller of an $80 million multifamily apartment complex developed on a former Brownfield in North Carolina. 

Represented one of the nation’s largest multifamily housing developers in the sale of a $40 million apartment complex in Texas, including the defeasance of $32 million of securitized agency financing.

Represented a large publicly-traded REIT in the negotiation of a joint venture agreement in which the REIT was an equity investor in a property it formerly owned in California.