Bryan D. Garner Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas

JOINT VENTURES AND PREFERRED EQUITY• Represented an institutional investor in a preferred equity investment involving a transitional industrial asset outside of Manhattan • Represented the sponsor in the negotiation of a joint venture agreement with an institutional investor for a core industrial asset outside of Manhattan• Represented a family office in the contribution of land and cash to a joint venture to facilitate construction of an office park• Represented the sponsor in the negotiation of a joint venture agreement related to a lender’s right to convert a portion of its debt into equity in the sponsor’s projectACQUISITIONS AND DISPOSITIONS• Represented a retail developer in (i) the $135 million acquisition of the retail portion of a mixed-use development in California, (ii) two related financings, and (iii) the sale of air parcels to a condominium developer• Represented a buyer who, through an equity purchase, acquired fee or leasehold ownership interests in over 100 restaurants across the United States• Represented a retail developer in the acquisition of a 70,000-square-foot retail center located outside of Chicago comprising the ground floor of a mixed-use development DISTRESSED DEBT• Represented a REMIC trust in a non-judicial foreclosure action that involved threats of a lawsuit against the trust by a bankruptcy trustee, a potential borrower bankruptcy filing, and a possible lawsuit against the trust by a limited partner in the borrower • Represented a REMIC trust in negotiations involving environmentally-contaminated collateral and advised on multiple possible exit strategies• Represented a REMIC trust in the resolution of a defaulted $69 million CMBS loan secured by an approximately one million-square-foot mall in Ohio, including negotiation of an agreed receivership for the mall

Dallas

ACQUISITIONS AND DISPOSITIONS• Represented a Fortune 500 company in the purchase and sale of multiple automobile dealerships throughout the country• Represented the owner of a Class AA office building in its negotiation of a 24,000-square-foot lease with one of the building’s anchor tenants• Represented the owner of a Class AA office building in the negotiation of an approximately 8,000-square-foot lease for the building’s signature restaurant• Represented a municipality in a public-private partnership involving a catalyst mixed-use development designed to revitalize the core of the city’s downtownDISTRESSED DEBT• Represented a REMIC trust in the resolution of a portfolio of three CMBS loans (each involving multiple tranches of senior and mezzanine debt) secured by 16 apartment complexes located in Texas and Maryland, which resolution included the negotiation and confirmation of a reorganization plan in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings that substantively consolidated the borrowers and resulted in a third party purchasing all 16 properties and assuming an amended, restated, and consolidated loan in the principal amount of $296.68 million• Represented a commercial mortgage lender in the sale of a $10 million loan secured in part by a nuclear bunker, then represented the purchaser of this loan in a borrower bankruptcy filing and a successful non-judicial foreclosure sale of the bunker• Represented a commercial mortgage lender in the resolution of two non-performing loans through a discounted payoff transaction, multiple requests for injunctive relief by the borrower, an involuntary bankruptcy filing by the lender against the borrower, and a non-judicial foreclosure sale

Bachelor Of Arts, Bachelor Of Business Administration, Juris Doctorate, Plan Ii Honors Program, Business Honors Program, School Of Law

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