Al Williams represents clients in complex commercial real estate transactions, with a particular focus on the acquisition, financing, development, and operation of U.S. real estate assets.
Al regularly represents financial institutions originating and investing in syndicated, securitized, construction, mortgage, and mezzanine loans secured directly or indirectly by large-scale commercial real estate projects across a wide range of asset classes, including office buildings, shopping centers, multifamily apartment buildings, condominium developments, industrial properties, hotels, and healthcare facilities.
Experience
A private equity fund manager in the entitlement, financing (including preferred equity), development, and lease-up of a 500,000 square foot office building in Brooklyn, New York.
A life insurance company in the origination and syndication of a $375 million term loan secured by a master-leased historic redevelopment site in New York City slated for occupancy by a Fortune 50 company and other mixed-use purposes.
A major U.S. lending institution in the origination of over $5 billion of mortgage loans slated for CMBS securitization.
A major U.S. bank in the origination and restructuring of a $360 million revolving line of credit made available to a privately held student housing REIT.
A flexible office space provider in the acquisition, debt and equity financing, and leasing of an office building in San Francisco, California.
A foreign developer in a joint venture investment in connection with the construction and rehabilitation of a 350,000 square foot condominium tower rising above a historic seminary in Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
A U.S. bank in the workout and restructuring of a series of mortgage loans secured by a portfolio of multifamily apartment buildings in the wake of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019.