“My goal is simple: work to make every client an immense success.
Mark Edelstein is chair of Morrison Foerster’s Global Real Estate Group and co-chair of the Distressed Real Estate Group. He has over three decades of experience representing leading financial institutions, real estate companies, owners, acquirers, sellers, and investors in some of their most high-profile transactions. In the recent words of clients, Mark is “without question one of the most talented real estate legal and commercial minds” and his “intellect, commercial and legal sense and problem solving skills are second to none” (Chambers USA). Clients also say he is “a top-notch New York real estate lawyer that connects with and cares about his clients” (Best Lawyers) and “is particularly attuned to current legal issues in the industry and provides excellent service and counsel” (Chambers USA).
Mark practices in the areas of real estate, REIT, and fund finance; private equity; workouts; restructurings; and bankruptcies. He regularly represents lenders and others in a wide variety of mortgage and construction loan transactions, and unsecured and borrowing base financings, involving—among other asset types—office, commercial, retail, industrial, multi-family, hospitality, healthcare, homebuilding, and condominium and cooperatives. He also represents lenders and others in complex real estate workouts, restructurings, and chapter 11 proceedings. Few lawyers have Mark’s experience with and understanding of syndicated, securitized, and participated loan arrangements, subscription lines, A/B note transactions, mezzanine financing, EB-5 transactions, bond financing, and complex intercreditor and co-lender agreements.