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I am a leader in the senior living finance industry, having represented lenders, investors, and developers in financing transactions for more than 200 senior living communities, including acquisition and construction loans, tax-exempt bond financings, mezzanine loans and private placements of debt and equity. My finance experience includes significant loan restructuring work as both debtor and creditor counsel.I also have an active practice representing government entities and developers in the negotiation of public-private partnerships for the development of real estate assets, usually under a long-term ground lease, master lease or concession agreement.My clients include a number of offshore investors in US real estate and I represent them in acquisitions, sales, financing and acting as investor partners in the development of a variety of real estate assets, including senior housing, office buildings, multifamily, student housing and data centers.

Listed skills include Joint Ventures, Due Diligence, Mergers And Acquisitions, Acquisitions, and 12 others.

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  Partner, Real Estate Practice Group Leader

  Squire Patton Boggs

  2001 - Present

  Representing an offshore investor in the acquisition of a large data center and office complex leased solely by a credit tenant.Representing a senior housing developer in the negotiation of a joint venture agreement with an institutional investor for the development of a series of communities.Representing a regional transit authority in the RFP process, negotiation of ground leases and development agreements with private developers for transit-oriented development.Representing a developer in negotiations with the District of Columbia for the development rights to City owned land.Representing an offshore investor in the negotiation of the joint venture agreement and development agreement for the construction of a multifamily high-rise development.