JOHN CHAMBERLIN has represented institutional investors, commercial banks, investment banks and opportunity funds in a variety of complex single and multi-asset financings of commercial real estate lending transactions for over 20 years. These financings include permanent loans, mezzanine loans, construction loans, mortgage loans for commercial mortgage-backed securitization programs (CMBS), loan participations, loan assumptions and sales and loan modifications.
Notable transactions include:
- Represented three institutional co-lenders in connection with an approximately $1.245 billion CMBS mortgage financing secured by a newly construction Class A office building located in Hudson Yards district in Manhattan, New York.
- Represented a large institutional lender in connection with an approximately aggregate $1.3 billion CMBS mortgage and mezzanine financing secured by commercial condominiums in a Class A office building located in Manhattan, New York.
- Represented a large institutional lender in connection with an approximately aggregate $814 million CMBS mortgage, senior mezzanine and junior mezzanine financings secured by over 100 self storage facilities located in 17 different states.
- Represented a syndicate of lenders in connection with an approximately CAN$481 million mortgage loan and CAN$185 million mezzanine loan secured by over 70 self storage facilities located in Canada.
- Represented a large institutional lender in connection with an agented securitization transaction consisting of ten mortgage loans totaling approximately $875 million secured by 10 Class A office properties located in southern California.
- Represented a large institutional lender in connection with an approximately $480 million financing secured by a portfolio of single family rental properties and securitized in a stand alone securitization.
- Represented a large institutional lender in connection with the origination of a $598.8 million financing secured by a portfolio of single family rental properties and securitized in a stand alone securitization.
- Represented a large institutional lender in connection with (i) an approximately $251 million CMBS financing secured by a regional shopping mall in Northridge, California, (ii) an approximately $187 million CMBS financing secured by a regional shopping mall in Appleton, Wisconsin and (iii) an approximately $170 million CMBS financing secured by a regional shopping mall in Augusta, Georgia.
- Represented a large institutional lender in connection with the workout and restructuring of 15 loan facilities (including term, construction and revolving loans and letter of credit facilities) totaling approximately $426 million and secured by multi-family and to-be developed properties located in Arizona, California, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nevada and Texas, which included foreclosure, deed-in-lieu of foreclosure, forbearance arrangements and debt restructuring.
- Represented a large institutional lender in connection with a $75 million CMBS financing secured by an anchored retail vertically subdivided property located in Manhattan, New York.
- Represented an institutional lender in connection with an approximately $130 million construction loan for the construction of an office building and hotel around Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.
John has extensive experience in properly documenting, structuring and analyzing a loan for securitization, and has represented his clients in connection with single asset securitizations and mortgage loans for single family rental (SFR) securitizations. He has represented lenders in connection with loan workouts and restructurings, and he has represented both master and the special servicers in connection with the modification and restructuring of securitized loans.
In addition to his financing practice, John also represents corporations, developers and other business entities in connection with acquisition, disposition, construction, development and leasing of real estate, including vacant land, office buildings, warehouse and industrial properties.
John was included in The Legal 500 U.S. 2013, 2014, and 2015 for Real Estate and Construction, has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 and is recognized in Chambers USA for his lender-side representation on real estate financings.