• Kramer Levin advises institutional and nontraditional lenders, borrowers, developers, and investors in complex real estate financings and refinancings. Experienced in representing clients on both sides of the negotiating table, we are effective negotiators who help clients achieve their goals.

    We advise clients in financings and refinancings for property in all asset classes, including office, residential, retail, hotel, industrial, franchise, cooperative-owned and condominium properties, and at every finance stage, from loan origination and administration through refinancings, defaults, distressed loan workouts and loan payoff. 

    We have handled billions of dollars in financings, refinancings and troubled loan workouts for properties throughout the United States. From advising on the acquisition financing of 108 Leonard St., which was at the time the most expensive building ever sold by New York City, to the $2.2 billion refinance of Caesars Entertainment in Las Vegas, we have provided counsel on many of the most significant real estate projects in the nation. 

    Representative lender- and borrower-side transactions in our experience include:

    • Representing various institutional lenders, including Amherst Capital Management, Capital Source, Customers Bank, DW Commercial Finance, Mitsui Fudosan Finance, Pacific Western Bank, UBS O’Connor and VICI Properties, in connection with innumerable financings across the United States
    • Representing Capital Partners, DLJ Real Estate, Trinity Place Holdings Inc., Mitsui Fudosan America Inc., Property Markets Group and Rockrose Development Corp. in numerous borrower-side financing transactions across the United States

    Our lawyers employ innovative structures for a wide range of loan transactions, including acquisition, mezzanine and preferred equity financings; construction loans; permanent loans; CMBS loans; warehouse facilities; refinancings; and private placements. We also actively represent both buyers and sellers of notes secured by all asset classes of real estate.