Morrison Foerster

With experience spanning hotel, hospitality, and resort through to large-scale office mandates, Morrison Foerster’s well-rounded global real estate group advises on high-value purchase and sale transactions, often assisting on large investments, financings and joint ventures. The firm routinely assists large asset management companies and financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo Bank, and Goldman Sachs, as well as several REITs, funds, and developers. The chair of the team is Mark Edelstein who is also known for his leading of the practice’s distressed real estate group; he is based in New York. In the same office, co-chair Jeffrey Temple has extensive experience handling multi-tiered finance transactions and credit facilities. On the West Coast, LA based co-chair, Thomas Fileti, regularly assists on transactions involving REITs, among other areas. The practice also has experience assisting on distressed assets and bankruptcies; here, New York’s Lawrence Ceriello is noted for his mezzanine debt, workout, and restructuring experience. Philip Levine is highlighted for his leading of the firm’s northern California real estate practice group in addition to his leading on several sizeable equity and debt transactions, construction loan mandates and retail lease work.