In the real estate realm, borrowers and lenders profit from utilizing a variety of financing methods. Likewise, legal advice relating to creative financing structures is an increasingly integral part of every transaction.

Developers, investors, owners, syndicates, lenders and sureties go to PoGo for our unsurpassed real estate finance capabilities. We stand ready to create and facilitate real estate finance solutions that suit the needs of a wide range of clients. For instance, our real estate finance attorneys provide counsel on issues ranging from lessor partnerships in sale-leaseback financing scenarios to multiple credit facilities that provide funds for construction, working capital, tax-exempt and term financing for a major utility project.

We provide counsel on matters such as ownership vehicles; complex operating arrangements; management arrangements; domestic, international and cross-border investments; and acquisitions and dispositions of projects, portfolios and interests in direct and indirect investment vehicles. We also advise clients about venture capital, equity and special opportunity investments; specialized investments; risk participating hybrid financing; mezzanine loans; structured finance; defeasance transactions; and recapitalizations and restructuring of properties and entities.

Together, we have:

• Assisted a foreign bank with 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 a privately held hotel company in connection with closing over $300,000,000 in securitizable credit facilities to finance the acquisition, construction and renovation of hotels throughout the United States
• Represented lessor partnerships in over $25 million of sale-leaseback financing for the computer building and laboratory facilities of a large regional development agency in Alabama and Tennessee
• Served as counsel for a public fund's purchase of 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 banks in their construction lending activities
• Represented a life insurance company in financing regional retail malls
• Served as counsel for a mezzanine lender for more than 50 commercial projects
• Served as counsel for CMBS servicers for more than 100 assumptions and loan modifications
• Served as counsel for noteholder in the sale of a pool of 95 Ginnie Mae loans
• Served as counsel for CMBS conduit loan originators and borrowers for hundreds of conduit loan transactions
• Served as lender's counsel for a loan under the NAHASDA program