Patrick Marette Email & Phone Number

Walnut Creek, California, United States

New York, United States

• Manage Real Estate practice group’s participation in M&A and Leveraged Finance transactions, including:• Negotiating terms of acquisition and financing agreements.• Supervising teams conducting due diligence and related review and negotiation of disclosure schedules to agreements and preparing related diligence reports. • Managing local counsel efforts and coordinating negotiation of required title insurance and satisfaction of title company requirements.• Represent tenants (and occasionally sublandlords) in negotiation of multiple space and ground leases for office space and industrial properties located in New York City and across the United States.• Support real estate portfolio and single-asset financings, including:• Conducting financeability analysis of ground leases and identifying related suggested improvements to ground lease terms.• Negotiating terms of SPE borrower organizational documents with Delaware counsel.• Managing review and negotiation of required local counsel opinion letters.• Represent banks as buyer in individual asset purchases pursuant to master repurchase agreements, supervising junior associates in loan and asset diligence and preparation of closing documents required as condition to client’s funding.• Negotiate the terms of asset sales by bankrupt clients, including land sales and leases, with stalking horse and other bidders.• Train junior associates on topics including title and survey review, lease assignment clause analysis, providing specialist input on M&A and Leveraged Finance transactions, including by presenting training sessions at practice group meetings. • Provide pro bono representation to numerous clients involving office space leases and other matters.

New York, United States

• Consulted with local offices regarding projects financed by mortgage loans and terms of same loans• Drafted and negotiated mortgage loan documents with borrowers’ counsel, including review and negotiation of required title insurance and legal opinion letters.

J.D., Law

Juris Doctorate, Order of the Coif, Law Review

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Summa Cum Laude Minors in Mathematics and U.S. History