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Three MoFo Lawyers Recognized at Connect Media’s 2024 Lawyers in Real Estate Awards

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Connect Media has selected Keith Print, Joshua Pierce, and Jeffrey Temple for accolades at its fifth annual Lawyers in Real Estate Awards. The three were among 110 attorneys across the country who were chosen for their accomplishments and their contributions to the community. MoFo was one of only five law firms with three or more winners.

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Connect Media has selected Keith Print, Joshua Pierce, and Jeffrey Temple for accolades at its fifth annual Lawyers in Real Estate Awards. The three were among 110 attorneys across the country who were chosen for their accomplishments and their contributions to the community. MoFo was one of only five law firms with three or more winners.Jeffrey Temple, co-chair of the U.S. Real Estate Group, was one of only 10 attorneys selected in the most competitive national category. He has over 40 years of experience representing a broad spectrum of clients making investments in, acquiring, financing, developing, operating, and selling large commercial real estate assets. He regularly advises institutional lenders, private equity investors, investment fund sponsors, REITs, foreign investors, and family offices.Keith Print was one of 10 Florida & Gulf Coast lawyers to be selected. He regularly represents prominent financial institutions in large, complex syndicated mortgage, mezzanine, subscription, and corporate/REIT facilities. He also represents clients in construction loan transactions involving prominent developers of multi-family apartment buildings and office buildings, among other asset classes.Joshua Pierce was one of 10 Boston & New England lawyers to be selected. In his role leading MoFo’s Boston real estate practice, he has successfully shepherded billions of dollars’ worth of substantial, complex deals over the finish line. He has a decade of experience working with clients on commercial real estate matters, with a particular focus on the acquisition, financing, and disposition of U.S. real estate assets.As the real estate industry has become increasingly global and oriented toward capital markets, MoFo’s leading Real Estate Group provides our clients with the most effective legal representation, notwithstanding the location, size, staffing needs, or time constraints of any transaction. Consistently ranked by Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500, our Real Estate Group also works collaboratively with partners specializing in Financial Transactions, Tax, Securities, Corporate, Bankruptcy, Litigation, and more to provide seamless service to clients.For more information about the awards, see <a href="https://www.connectcre.com/awards/2024-lawyers-in-real-estate-awards/" target="_blank">Connect CRE’s website</a>.

Three MoFo Lawyers Recognized at Connect Media’s 2024 Lawyers in Real Estate Awards

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Jeff Temple is the co-chair of the firm’s U.S. Real Estate Group and has over 35 years of experience representing a broad spectrum of clients making investments in, acquiring, financing, developing, operating, and selling large commercial real estate assets. He regularly advises institutional lenders, private equity investors, investment fund sponsors, REITs, foreign investors, and family offices.Leading lenders and borrowers call on Jeff for representation in complex, multi-tiered finance transactions and credit facilities of all types, including transactions involving the acquisition and disposition of real estate assets, as well as the acquisition and sale of loans and loan portfolios. Jeff regularly represents financial institutions, REITs, and private equity funds in connection with syndicated credit facilities (secured and unsecured), construction loans, preferred equity investments, A/B notes and participation arrangements, mezzanine financings, note purchase transactions, note financings, and intercreditor and co-lending arrangements involving major office, residential, industrial, retail, hospitality, and mixed-use projects.Jeff also regularly represents institutional domestic and foreign investors in large-scale acquisitions and dispositions of a wide variety of U.S. commercial assets, and the structuring and documentation of strategic and programmatic joint ventures, sale/leaseback transactions, and direct investments in U.S. real estate assets. He has also guided a variety of sponsors and family offices in the establishment of real estate funds and various private placements and other alternative capital raising structures. Jeff also actively represents U.S. opportunity fund investors making strategic acquisitions and forming joint ventures with local partners in Europe and Asia. His practice frequently involves the representation of foreign institutions making in-bound investments in U.S. commercial real estate, and provides guidance on the proper cross-border structuring of these investments. Following the formation of joint ventures for his clients, Jeff has continued to represent these ventures in numerous complex acquisitions, financings, and subsequent dispositions.Jeff is a member of the firm’s Distressed Real Estate Group and represents clients in a broad variety of loan restructurings and workouts, utilizing decades of experience through multiple “down cycles” to achieve creative and meaningful solutions to highly complex matters often involving adversarial situations. He has successfully completed restructurings involving billions of dollars of investments for both lenders and borrowers. He advises clients on the exercise of both UCC and mortgage remedies regarding problem loans and the restructuring of troubled joint ventures and other distressed real estate investments.He has developed a leading practice in the area of EB-5 investments and financings, having worked on transactions that have included over $2 billion of EB-5 investments. He represents both developers seeking EB-5 investments and senior lenders making secured loans with EB-5 in the capital stack.He also actively represents owners, developers, and investors in hotels, office buildings, and other commercial properties in the development, management, and leasing of such commercial properties.Jeff is the author of numerous articles and publications on fast-developing issues and trends in the real estate space, and is an active speaker in the New York real estate community and frequently moderates and participates on panels covering a broad variety of commercial real estate topics. In 2021 and 2022, Jeff was named a “Top Author” in the JD Supra Readers’ Choice Awards, recognizing top authors for thought leadership. Jeff was also selected as a nationally recognized lawyer as part of Connect CRE’s 2024 Real Estate Awards and received the “recommended” distinction for Real Estate and Real Estate Finance by Legal 500.

Jeffrey Temple

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Keith Print regularly represents prominent financial institutions in large, complex syndicated mortgage, mezzanine, subscription, and corporate/REIT credit facilities. He also represents clients in construction loan transactions involving prominent developers of multi-family apartment buildings and office buildings, among other asset classes.Keith has represented clients in major projects in New York City, including 30 and 50 Hudson Yards, and frequently advises the lead lenders in large construction financings, including large-scale credit enhancement for, or purchase of, government issued tax-exempt and taxable bonds. The proceeds from these bonds are used to finance luxury multi-family projects throughout New York City that offer affordable rate and market rate housing.Keith also counsels clients on real estate sales and acquisitions, ground leases, and office leases, including those involving landmark hotels and complex industrial land.

Keith Print

Josh Pierce has a decade of experience working with clients on commercial real estate matters, with a particular focus on the acquisition, financing, and disposition of U.S. real estate assets.Josh represents domestic and foreign investors (including private equity and investment fund sponsors) in large-scale acquisitions, financings, and dispositions of U.S. commercial real estate assets and in the structuring and documentation of strategic joint ventures and direct investments in U.S. commercial real estate assets. His practice frequently involves the representation of foreign institutions making in-bound investments into the United States.Josh also represents institutional lenders providing financing to commercial real estate projects and borrowers throughout the United States and abroad with respect to a wide variety of asset classes, including office building, multi-family, hotel, industrial, condominium, and land deals. He regularly represents lenders in connection with construction, mortgage, and mezzanine loans; fund, REIT, and bond transactions; sale-leasebacks; unsecured lines of credit; and warehouse lines of credit.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Josh worked in the finance group of a law firm in New York, as well as at the U.S. Department of State in the Office of the Legal Adviser.Josh received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2009, where he was the notes and articles editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law. Josh is admitted to the bar in New York and Massachusetts.

Joshua Pierce

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