Tom Bogal Email and Phone Number

Thomas Bogal has broad expertise on a wide variety of transactional matters, including real estate finance, structured finance, joint ventures, commercial leasing, restructurings, and general corporate matters. Tom has extensive experience representing clients in all aspects of secured real estate financings, including both single asset and multiple asset transactions secured by office, hotel, retail, multifamily, industrial and healthcare properties. He has particular expertise in loans destined for securitization and transactions involving multiple layers of subordinate financing. Tom previously practiced law in the real estate finance group of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Tom was a co-founder of Red Pine Advisors LLC, where he served as general counsel and was responsible for all legal matters of the firm. Red Pine Advisors specializes in providing valuation opinions relating to thinly-traded financial investments, with a focus on real estate and structured credit instruments. Red Pine Advisors sold itself to Houlihan Lokey, a Los Angeles-based investment bank, in 2010. Tom served in an in-house capacity at Houlihan Lokey following the sale. Prior to founding Red Pine, Tom was chief operating officer of Taberna Securities, the broker-dealer subsidiary of RAIT Financial Trust (NYSE: RAS), a mortgage REIT active in a variety of real estate and structured credit investment asset classes. Taberna was the leading provider of corporate-level unsecured debt capital to REITs and other real estate companies in the form of trust preferred securities and subordinated notes. There, Tom was responsible for all legal and operational matters relating to the structuring and closing of over 70 loans to real estate companies and supervised the execution of seven CDO transactions totaling approximately $5 billion.