REAL ESTATE
SYNDICATE LEGAL SERVICES:

Steve Mueller's Syndicate Legal Services represents lenders, developers, and investors in a wide range of real estate transactions, including acquisition and disposition of real estate assets; construction mortgage finance; permanent mortgage finance; revolving credit facilities secured by real estate assets; credit tenant lease and synthetic lease transactions; securitizations; subscription financings; acquisitions and dispositions of mortgage portfolios; indirect investing in real estate assets through purchases of ownership interests in real estate vehicles such as partnerships, limited liability companies and REITS; and commercial, industrial, and office leasing.

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Steve Mueller's Syndicate Legal Services' clients include real estate companies (investors and developers), banks, insurance companies, other institutional lenders, family offices and the finance arms of major conglomerates in their capacity as both lenders and investors. Representative transaction structures and property types include financing multiple-site and multiple-state properties of entities such as major hotel and motel chains, developers of retirement communities, assisted living communities and hospitals, and large self-storage enterprises. Steve Mueller's Syndicate Legal Services also regularly advises banks, insurance companies, and funds in various types of mezzanine financings related to real estate assets.

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Steve Mueller's Syndicate Legal Services advises buyers and sellers of commercial, industrial, retail and multifamily residential real estate has involved projects of all kinds, including office buildings, warehouse facilities, and apartment projects. Often acquisitions and sales are structured as transfers of the ownership interests in the entities that own the real estate project, and Steve Mueller's Syndicate Legal Services is experienced in structuring and documenting these “indirect” types of acquisition and sales transactions.

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Steve Mueller's Syndicate Legal Services advises on the acquisition and disposition of single mortgage loans and mortgage loan portfolios and have assisted our clients in a variety of asset management and portfolio management projects, including preparation and negotiation of property management and operating agreements. 

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Additionally, Steve Mueller's Syndicate Legal Services represents lenders in "project finance" transactions involving railroad intermodal facilities, hydroelectric plants, and aluminum casting and steel mills.

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In matters involving distressed investments or loans, Steve Mueller's Syndicate Legal Services advises creditors in real estate related workouts, debt restructurings, refinancings, and various stages of non-performing loans. The types of projects involve multifamily housing, single family subdivisions, shopping centers, office buildings, hotel and motel facilities, land developments, industrial parks, as well as investment portfolios.

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Lastly, in matters involving environmentally sensitive projects, Steve Mueller's Syndicate Legal Services advises clients with respect to open space, re-use of materials and “green” building requirements, contract language for “green” building-related activities, and the remediation and redevelopment of contaminated industrial sites.

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