Forrest Murphy
Associate
305-375-6136
fmurphy@bilzin.com
Area of Focus:
Corporate, Real Estate
GET TO KNOW
Forrest
Forrest is an Associate in the Corporate and Real Estate departments where he focuses on corporate, real estate, and mezzanine financing as well as restructuring work and project finance. Forrest enjoys having a broad corporate practice that allows him to use his undergraduate degree in economics to help clients maximize their investments and contribute to the community’s growing economy.
Q & A
How is corporate finance changing to facilitate deal making in today’s economy?
Financing structures are becoming more and more complex to accommodate today’s fast-paced, asset-driven economy. We often use creative, non-traditional approaches to structure multi-layered transactions with multiple entities. Such sophisticated structures offer clients a great deal of flexibility and help Bilzin Sumberg's legal team provide the most effective, efficient solutions to attain clients’ goals.
What has impressed you most since joining Bilzin Sumberg?
I am most impressed with the firm's use of legal practice technologies to deliver great service to its clients. The firm’s non-lawyer professional support teams, including IT, Professional Development, Library Support, Knowledge Management and Marketing, work together to achieve optimal productivity and keep the firm ahead of trends impacting the legal industry. It is exhilarating to be part of this innovation-focused, forward-thinking team.
My PRACTICES
EXPERIENCE
Representation of a real estate investment company in a $282.5 million acquisition of a Class A office complex in West Palm Beach, Florida. Also handled the financing supporting the acquisition, which consisted of a mortgage loan and a mezzanine loan. The two-tower complex includes 450,000 square fe...
Transactional and local counsel to a consortium led by Meridiam and EllisDon in their bid to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain a new civil and probate courthouse in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The project consists of a 600,000 square foot facility and will be delivered under an availabil...
Representation of a private investment company in the acquisition of senior debt of a distressed publicly traded Canadian cannabis company. Structured a "going private" transaction for the company, including a joint venture with other secured creditors to acquire the assets of the cannabis company t...
Representation of Rialto Capital Management, a private real estate investment management company, in acquisition financings totaling over $150 million for two prime office properties in the Denver office market and the negotiation of joint venture agreements between the partners in the acquisitions.
Representation of affiliates of Agave Holdings, LLC in connection with two loans totaling $72 million secured by two Class A office buildings in Miami, Florida and Chicago, Illinois.
Representation of Cambridge Landmark in the $56 million purchase and $40 million financing of The Citizen Hotel, a 196-room Autograph Collection boutique hotel in Sacramento, California.
CREDENTIALS
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University of Florida, J.D., Order of the Coif, 2018University of Florida, B.A., Economics and Political Science, 2014
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United Way of Miami-Dade
LINC Miami, Executive Committee Member
Associate Legal Mingle, Committee MemberUniversity of Florida Levin College of LawSenior Articles Editor for the Florida Law Review -
Florida
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