Dana B. Weiss

Dana B. Weiss

Partner

Cleveland

T 216.363.6223

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Overview

Dana maintains a national practice focused on sophisticated commercial real estate financings across a broad range of asset classes. She regularly counsels financial institutions, debt funds, and private equity lenders as part of her lending practice but also represents owners and developers locally and nationally with regard to financing their mid- and large-scale commercial and residential development and redevelopment projects.

Dana’s practice started in the municipal finance and tax credit financing space, so she has extensive experience navigating lenders through complex transactions with multiple funding sources involving new markets, low income and historic tax credits, subordinate and other alternative financing including PACE financing, affordable and fair housing, and various other economic development incentives. She has advised senior and subordinate lenders and borrowers in acquisition, bridge, construction, and permanent debt financing.

What I Do

Asset-Based Lending
Commercial Finance & Banking
DIP Financing
Loan Workouts
Mezzanine Financings
Mortgage Financing
Public Finance
Real Estate

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Experience

Represented Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of a portfolio of 228 mortgage loans from Atlantic Union Bank for approximately $2 billion.

Key Contacts: Tabitha B. HumphriesJack KunkelDavid HudsonMelanie FriedmanPooja BhaskarHunter WinsauerKyle P. GillenMatthew G. MrazekPhilip SilvermanBrian (Tae Hee) LeeKevin J. Kiley Jr.Michael W. WardKevin D. MargolisMichael K. SwearengenMichael R. BeerChristopher M. MatgouranisMichael A. PrimroseLaura L. HultAdam N. SaurweinLeAnn DavisGaetano G. SavelliJeffrey J. WildDana B. WeissBarry J. GuttmanKelly M. NollJanelle R. GasbarrinoJoel R. PentzJennifer L. KatzakisSam A. MintzerLisa M. BehraMatthew P. DelguydChris F. MoratschekNathan WagnerLaura Mehl SugarmanEvan M. McLaughlinAlyssa L. RobertsAnthony A. GhazoulNisha PatelJustin MaroniAndrew S. NicollLauren E. LipsycRachel KashienJared E. Kriwinsky

Represented The NRP Group LLC in its $7 million purchase of unimproved land in Travis County, Texas, and the subsequent $53 million loan for the construction of a multifamily project on the land.

Key Contacts: Matthew G. MrazekAdam N. SaurweinShannon LigettiDana B. Weiss

Advised a leading international investment and management firm, performing all diligence and related needs for their purchase of loans in default for a total of over $600 million and subsequent foreclosures of more than 70 properties in California.

Key Contacts: Adam N. SaurweinShannon LigettiJeffrey J. WildDana B. WeissKelly M. NollChris F. MoratschekLaura Mehl SugarmanEvan M. McLaughlinMatthew M. BraichAlyssa L. RobertsAnthony A. GhazoulLauren E. Lipsyc

Represented private equity client as lender in three separate acquisition and construction loans collectively totaling $47,525,000 secured by multi-family property located in Dallas, Texas, in connection with the firm’s representation of that private equity client in the negotiation of and entry into the following joint ventures: (a) negotiation of a preferred equity investment into an upstream issuer, and (b) negotiation of a joint venture to acquire real estate, representing the preferred investment issuer as the capital partner, totaling an additional approximate $18 million.

Key Contacts: Michael J. BarrieDana B. WeissAnthony A. Ghazoul

Representation of the owner in the refinancing of a hotel in northeast Ohio, with a $16 million CMBS loan.

Key Contacts: Dana B. Weiss

Representation of a national banking lender in a more than  $17.5 million construction loan for the development of a strip-style shopping center with multiple outparcels located in Kentucky, including financing for the build-out of the national grocery store anchor tenant.

Key Contacts: Dana B. Weiss

Representation of a national banking lender in a $45 million syndicated bridge loan into a master-lease structure to facilitate compliance with Sharia law, for the acquisition of a multifamily apartment building.

Key Contacts: Dana B. Weiss

Representation of the owner in an approximately $75 million refinancing of two Northeast Ohio area private-pay independent and assisted-living senior housing facilities.

Key Contacts: Dana B. Weiss

Negotiated economic incentives with the Dayton-Montgomery Port Authority.

Key Contacts: Dana B. Weiss

Negotiated Ground Lease and Operating Lease for expansion property.

Key Contacts: Dana B. Weiss

Representation of a national banking lender in an approximately $25 million refinancing of an industrial/office portfolio with properties located in several states throughout the country.

Key Contacts: Dana B. Weiss

Representation of a national banking lender in a $75+ million construction loan for the rehabilitation and conversion of an office building into a residential rental apartment building in Cleveland, Ohio.

Key Contacts: Dana B. Weiss

Representation of the developer in the refinancing of a mixed-use residential and retail development in northeast Ohio, with an $80+ million CMBS loan.

Key Contacts: Dana B. Weiss

Representation of RES Polyflow in the $185 million bond financing for construction of a new plastics conversion plant in Indiana.

Key Contacts: Dana B. Weiss

Representation of the lender in the financing for the construction of a market-rate townhome project in North Carolina.

Key Contacts: Dana B. Weiss

Representation of an owner in the financing for the construction of its new headquarters office in a Chicago suburb.

Key Contacts: Dana B. Weiss

Lead counsel for a national private equity fund in structuring and deploying a total of more than $150 million of loans within a one-year time period, with each individual loan in the $1 million to $12 million range, to acquire, construct or refinance troubled properties across all asset classes including retail, hospitality, multifamily (low-income and market rate) and senior living, industrial and office.

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Credentials

Education

Cleveland State University College of Law, 2003, J.D.
  • cum laude
University of Texas, 1997

Clerkships and Bar Admissions

Ohio

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  • Listed, The Best Lawyers in America®, Real Estate Law and Commercial Finance Law, 2022-2026