Real Estate Funds
Bilzin Sumberg counsels investment fund sponsors and investors - both domestic and foreign - at every stage of the real estate investment life cycle. We use in-depth real estate and financial services industry knowledge to help guide our clients' business strategies and to help funds acquire, finance and divest themselves of real estate assets and portfolios. Our attorneys design sophisticated legal strategies to structure acquisitions, minimize taxes, and restructure debt. Our clients include real estate developers, institutional investors, high-net-worth investors and private trusts.
EXPERIENCE
Representation of LNR Partners, the largest special servicer of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loans in the country. LNR services 145 pools of CMBS loans, totaling more than $220 billion in principal and relating to real property interests in all fifty states. We have handled over $4.2...
Representation of Lennar Corporation in the formation of Lennar Multifamily Venture (LMV), an equity fund/joint venture sponsored and managed by Lennar Multifamily Communities with global sovereign and institutional investors. The venture, with initial equity commitments of $1.1 billion, targets inv...
Representation of real estate fund in multiple acquisitions and sales of portfolios of loans and real property from various financial institutions.
Advised and assisted Craig Robins, The Dacra Group, and affiliated entities regarding the acquisition of, and the selling of an equity interest in, a 20-plus property real estate portfolio in the Miami Design District, in order to make way for the $1.4 billion proposed development of the area.
Advised Rialto Capital and Lennar Corporation in connection with the formation of two funds: (1) Rialto Real Estate Fund, LP, a $700 million closed-end real estate investment fund focused on distressed real estate investments, and (2) Rialto Real Estate Fund II, LP, a $1 billion real estate investme...
Representation of various Adler controlled Real Estate Funds in connection with the acquisition of approximately $600 million of low-rise office and light industrial properties primarily in Florida, Texas, and North Carolina.
INSIGHTS
David S. Resnick moderates a panel covering top-of-mind issues being faced by real estate joint venture partners in the market, at Bilzin Sumberg's 5th Annual Development Conference.
David Resnick moderates the panel Real Estate Capital Markets: Equity & Debt for Florida Multifamily & Condo Deals at the GreenPearl Florida Multifamily Summit. Panelists discuss the challenges created by current capital market conditions as well as regional bank failures that threaten lendi...
Joshua A. Kaplan and David S. Resnick lead a discussion regarding deal considerations and fundamental issues found in every real estate joint venture.
David Resnick, a Partner in Bilzin Sumberg’s Corporate & Finance Group, and Daniel Matz, Senior Managing Director at Newmark, discuss the growing opportunities for capital deployment in the region. Together, they use their respective business and financial insights to shed light on the ris...
In this interview, Jake Greenberg, an attorney in Bilzin Sumberg’s Litigation Group, sits down with Camilo Niño, CEO and founding partner of Linkvest Capital and LV Lending, to discuss the recent lending activity of non-traditional lenders and how they are shaping the development of Sou...
With Florida’s pro-business climate and warm weather, the state has always been a target for corporate headquarter relocation and business expansion. Couple that with the elimination of the SALT deduction and a focus on quality of life issues in the age of COVID, Florida has gone from the shortlist...
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