• Participate in establishing corporate strategy and governance, operational policies, managing negotiation and structuring of legal, regulatory, tax and audit arrangements, and managing relationships with network of external legal counsel, legal and compliance vendors, borrower, partner and investor relationships and service providers.• Supervision of transaction management from term sheet through realization. Lead negotiation and structuring of partnership and operating company agreements, corporate documents, management agreements, financing agreements, transaction joint venture agreements, purchase and sale agreements, lease and brokerage agreements, license agreements and vendor contracts.• Coordinate and direct legal aspects of asset and portfolio management and servicing. Responsible for directing strategy, negotiating and executing litigation, workouts, defaults, foreclosure and bankruptcy actions related to distressed assets totaling over $3 billion.• Substantial investor relations experience, including communication with institutional and high net-worth investors and fund advisory boards. Review and revise investor communications, partnership votes, periodic investor reporting and quarterly, annual and special meetings. Direct preparation of marketing materials.• Direct and manage investment funds and management company litigation. Assist human resources personnel with firm employment issues. Key participant in managing client, partner and investor relationships and varied experience working with tax counsel, accountants, and auditors. Experience managing press inquiries and public relations staff.• Manage compliance and regulatory matters relating to firm’s registration with the SEC. Lead the firm’s registered investment advisor compliance program including the rollout of a SAAS Compliance Portal. Oversee and direct internal investigations and reviews.

• Responsibilities included drafting, negotiating and reviewing term sheets, loan documents, participation agreements, intercreditor agreements, purchase and sale agreements, repurchase agreements and loan purchase agreements, organizational documents, opinion letters, debt and equity securities offering disclosures, preparing closing and transfer documents and performing extensive due diligence.• Represented opportunity funds in connection with real property acquisitions and dispositions, mortgage, mezzanine, construction and bridge financings, equity participations, stock purchase agreements, joint venture arrangements, acquisitions of general partnership interests, and securitization of cellular communication towers.• Acted as counsel to borrowers and lenders in connection with the origination of commercial mortgage loans, including single and multi-property securitizable acquisition loans, refinancings and loan modifications, secured by office, retail, industrial, hospitality and multi-family properties. Represented lenders in the origination, structuring and sale of subordinate debt, including mezzanine loans and loan participation interests. Represented issuers and underwriters in mortgage loan securitizations.• Advised developers and REITs in the acquisition and disposition of real property, sale-lease back transactions, 1031 tax free exchanges, option agreements, stock/unit transactions, and mortgage and construction financings.• Provided guidance to landlords and tenants in connection with the drafting and negotiating of ground leases, retail and office leases and sub-leases.

Supported the Real Estate Finance & Securitization Group in disposition of ownership interests in various real estate assets, commercial mortgage loan originations, mortgage loan portfolio acquisitions, securitizations, and dispositions of non-securitizied loans. Legal representative to the credit committee responsible for reviewing and approving large loan originations and portfolio purchases. Advised on transactional and organizational structuring issues and managed outside counsel. Reviewed and commented on contracts of sale, loan documents, participation agreements, intercreditor agreements, and negotiated confidentiality agreements.