Robert has extensive experience in the tranching and servicing of real estate-based loans, as well as the distribution of loans and loan interests through participations, intercreditor and co-lender arrangements, syndications and other sale transactions. He is also experienced in the restructuring and workout of troubled loans and the sale of mortgage and mezzanine loan interests and loan portfolios secured by distressed real estate assets. While living in Europe, Robert represented several large institutional lenders in connection with the post-financial crisis disposition of their commercial real estate portfolios

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• Represented a large institutional lender in connection with commercial mortgage financing of the $290 million acquisition by Korea-based Hana Asset Management and Los Angeles-based Ocean West Capital Partners of the five-building, 460,000-square-foot, DreamWorks Animation studio campus in Glendale, California, including structuring and negotiating the co-lender arrangements among the various lenders participating in the financing*
• Represented a New York-based institutional investor, as equity partner in a joint venture vehicle with Blue Rock Partners, a Canadian-based investment firm, in connection with the $37.3 million acquisition by the joint venture of Pinebrook Apartments, a 309-unit multifamily community in Miami, Florida*
• Represented a New York-based institutional investor, as equity partner in a joint venture vehicle with Shopoff Realty Investments of Irvine, California, in connection with the $52.7 million acquisition by the joint venture of the Brookside Mobile Home Park in El Monte, California, comprised of 421 mobile home sites set on more than 45 acres*

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.

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