Senior Partner

Real Estate Finance; Real Estate/Business/Tax Law

O: (212) 789-3164

F: (212) 719-0140

About Adam

Adam’s practice focuses on representing institutional lenders in bilateral and syndicated construction and permanent mortgage and mezzanine financings and operators and investors in joint venture transactions. Adam also has a wide range of experience advising clients in acquisitions and dispositions of real estate and debt and equity interests, general real estate and corporate operational matters, and ownership consolidations and restructurings. He has advised clients on transactions on a national basis relating to a variety of real estate asset classes, including office, industrial, retail, mixed-use, single-family rental, mobile and manufactured housing, self-storage and hospitality.

Representative Matters

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  • Represented an institutional lender in connection with a $161 million bridge loan to a joint venture between a prominent real estate developer and a foreign sovereign wealth fund, relating to the purchase of a Manhattan office building. The loan was secured by, among other things, a collateral assignment of an equity commitment letter from the sovereign wealth fund and a pledge of equity interests in the borrower, and was successfully completed from start to finish within a ten-day period
  • Represented an institutional lender in connection with a uniquely structured loan in the amount of up to $37.5 million, to fund the staggered acquisition of a “built-to-rent” residential townhome complex in St. Lucie County, Florida
  • Represented an institutional lender in connection with a $155.7 million construction loan to a global asset management firm relating to a mixed use development in Waikiki, Hawaii
  • Represented an institutional lender in connection with a $157.95 million term loan relating to a portfolio of eight self-storage facilities in New York and New Jersey
  • Represented an institutional lender in connection with a $112 million mortgage loan and a $19.5 million mezzanine loan to a global asset management firm relating to an office building in Stamford, Connecticut
  • Represented an institutional lender in connection with a $70 million mortgage loan and a $12.5 million mezzanine loan to a global asset management firm relating to an office building in Jersey City, New Jersey
  • Represented a national real estate fund in connection with various joint ventures relating to multi-family properties throughout Florida opposite leading institutional investors
  • Represented an institutional lender in connection with a $145 million construction loan relating to a mixed-used transportation hub in Ronkonkoma, New York
  • Represented an institutional lender in connection with a $22 million construction loan to a joint venture, relating to the modular construction of a multifamily building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was the lender’s first loan to fund modular construction
  • Represented an institutional lender in connection with various construction loans to joint ventures to fund the speculative construction of industrial and logistics facilities in New York and Texas, in amounts ranging from ranging from $19 million to $45 million
  • Represented an institutional lender in connection with the $47 million refinancing of a retail shopping center in Kissimmee, Florida, occupied by numerous nationally recognized tenants
  • Represented an institutional lender in connection with a $70 million loan to tenants-in-common to fund the acquisition of garden-style multi-family buildings in West Dundee, Illinois
  • Represented an institutional lender in connection with the $45 million refinancing of a prominent hotel in Austin, Texas, owned and operated by a subsidiary of a leading global asset manager
  • Represented one of the nation’s largest public self-storage REITs in connection with two joint venture transactions with institutional investors formed to acquire self-storage portfolios valued at $650 million and $1.325 billion
  • Represented a global investment firm in connection with a $150 million mezzanine loan to the indirect owner of one of the then-largest portfolios of single-family rental homes in the United States
  • Represented a foreign institutional lender in connection with a $275 million first priority mortgage loan encumbering the ground leasehold interest in Union Station in Washington, D.C.
  • Represented a leading alternative asset management firm opposite one of the world’s largest private equity firms in connection with its acquisition of an interest in a joint venture established to acquire, hold and resolve an approximately $400 million portfolio of distressed loans

Affiliations

New York State Bar Association

Admissions

State of New York

Education

University of Miami School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2011
Emory University, B.A., 2005