Kamao C. Shaw

Partner

Real Estate Finance

Newport Beach

kshaw@riemerlaw.com

O: (949) 593-9644

F: (617) 692-3444

About Kamao

Kamao Shaw takes a straightforward and business-minded approach to navigating institutional commercial real estate lenders through complex transactions. As a reformed litigator, Kamao knows how to cut to the chase, focus on what matters, and close the deal. Kamao’s robust financing practice focuses on bilateral transactions, multi-lender transactions, senior secured financing, and mezzanine financing. Kamao routinely advises balance sheet lenders and secondary market lenders in connection with the origination and leveraging of term loans, bridge loans, and construction loans.

Representative Matters

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  • $240 million mortgage and mezzanine bridge financing used to acquire four multi-family properties located in Georgia and fund future capital improvements
  • $155 million construction financing secured by ground leases on three industrial buildings located in the City of Industry, California
  • $109 million construction financing used to fund the construction of an industrial storage and distribution center located in Canton, Ohio
  • $108 million construction financing to multiple tenants-in-common used to construct a multi-phase apartment complex located in Chino Hills, California
  • $107 million construction financing used to fund the construction of a 29-building apartment complex located in Anaheim, California
  • $98 million mortgage and mezzanine financing used to acquire a portfolio of age-restricted manufactured housing communities located in Florida, Ohio, and Massachusetts
  • $82 million syndicated construction financing used to build a dual-branded hotel located in Silicon Valley, California
  • $65 million note-on-note financing secured by collateral assignment of underlying bridge and construction loans
  • $55 million syndicated construction financing used to build a 31-unit luxury condominium development located in San Francisco, California
  • $40 million conduit CMBS financing used to refinance a multi-tenant retail center located in Los Angeles, California

Affiliations

American Bar Association

Admissions

State of California
U.S. District Court, Central District of California
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Education

University of Michigan, J.D., 2007
University of Southern California, B.A., 2004