Borrowers and lenders, both large and small, profit from access to a variety of financing methods and a legal practice that is multi-dimensional in every respect.

Powell Goldstein's real estate finance attorneys provide services to developers, investors/owners, syndicators, lenders and sureties. Clients seek our counsel on matters such as ownership vehicles; complex operating arrangements; management arrangements; domestic, international and cross-border investments; acquisitions and dispositions of projects, portfolios and interests in direct and indirect investment vehicles; venture capital, equity and special opportunity investments; specialized investments; risk participating hybrid financings; and recapitalizations and restructurings of properties and entities.

Our team includes members and board members of several professional associations, including the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, the Mortgage Bankers Association of Metropolitan Washington, the Commercial Real Estate Secondary Market and Securitization Association, the Commercial Mortgage Securitization Association, the International Council of Shopping Centers and the District of Columbia Building Industry Association. Our team includes frequent speakers on securitization, land use, Georgia condominium law and advanced real estate practice issues and Virginia advanced real estate practice issues, as well as authors of various articles on real estate finance.

Together, we have:

• Counseled a foreign bank on a term loan to refinance a golf and country club residential community on Florida's Treasure Coast
• Served as counsel to a foreign bank participating in multiple credit facilities to provide over $461 million in construction, working capital, tax-exempt and term financing for a cogeneration project in New Jersey
• Represented lessor partnerships in over $25 million of sale-leaseback financings for the computer building and laboratory facilities of a large regional development agency in Alabama and Tennessee
• Served as counsel when a public fund purchased approximately $400 million of FHA-insured multi-family mortgage loans in the secondary market
• Served as underwriter's counsel for financing of various multi-family housing projects in Arizona, Illinois and Minnesota through financing structures involving combinations of FHA insurance, GNMA guaranties, bank letters of credit and tax-exempt bonds
• Counseled lenders for various workouts and foreclosures of distressed real estate projects--including hotels, apartment complexes, office buildings and retail facilities--with taxable and tax-exempt financing as well as new loans, construction loans and modifications of existing loans on performing assets
• Served as lender's counsel for subordinate financing of a large shopping center in metropolitan Atlanta
• Served as counsel to purchaser/lessor in sale-leaseback of a large office building in downtown Atlanta
• Served as lender's counsel for national banking in its construction lending activities
• Counseled for life insurance company in financing two regional retail malls
• Counseled for mezzanine lender for more than 50 commercial projects
• Served as counsel for CMBS Services for more than 50 assumptions and loan modifications
• Acted as counsel for noteholder in sale of a pool of 95 Ginnie Mae loans
• Served as counsel for CMBS conduit loan originator for more than 100 transactions