Michael is a senior member of the Fannie Mae structured real estate financing team in ArentFox Schiff's New York office, focusing on lender-side multistate, multi-property transactions involving multifamily dwellings, manufactured housing communities, and senior housing facilities, many with affordable housing components. He sits first chair on intricate refinancings involving collateral changes, payoffs, expansions, staggered substitutions and borrow ups. His recent representations include:• Refinancing and acquisitions of 33 property manufactured housing communities located in various counties in New York State, 32 of which had existing debt to be assigned and consolidated into 13 final CEMAs, saving Borrower significant real estate tax.• Refinancing of a $176M multistate affordable housing pool with negotiation and of subordination agreements from housing authorities in Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Utah, and Oregon.• 17 manufactured housing refinancing and acquisition transactions involving 7 different Funds ($400M)• A multistate multifamily housing borrow up ($200M).• a growing number of variable rate refinancings• Co-writer (with Les Jacobowitz) of Client Alerts documenting the demise of LIBOR and “smooth” transition to SOFR Michael’s pro bono work includes set-up of a 501(c)(3) farm animal and pocket pet rescue and rehabilitation charity, and co-representation in Immigration Court of an asylum seeker from Venezuela.