J. Gordon Arkin is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm's Finance & Financial Institutions, Health Care Finance & Restructuring, and Transactional & Securities Practices, and the Senior Living Industry Team. Mr. Arkin practices general business law with an emphasis on municipal finance and airport law. He currently serves as special counsel to many airports, and was general counsel to the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority for over 20 years.
Mr. Arkin has over 40 years of experience in representing clients in negotiating all types of commercial transactions, including business acquisitions and sales; state and federal agency regulatory and legislative counseling; commercial property and facility leasing, management and development; and municipal finance and securities. He has served as lender's counsel, borrower's counsel, underwriter's counsel and trustee's counsel on billions of dollars of financings and interest rate swaps. He represents the owners and operators of senior living facilities throughout the United States. He has also represented lenders in providing billions of dollars of loans to insurance companies created by various states that insure against hurricane damage.
Recent representative transactions include:
· Representation of a nationally known company in providing a $4.0 billion liquidity put to the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund
· Representation of a public company in the acquisition of eight senior living facilities located in four states
· Restructuring leases covering seven senior living facilities located in three states to pool their operations under a Master Lease
Mr. Arkin was the founding chairman of the Orlando chapter of the National Conference for Christians and Jews (NCCJ). He served as chairman and trustee of the Community Foundation of Central Florida, and he currently serves as a board member of Seniors First, Inc., and as a board member of New Hope For Kids. For his pro bono community service, Mr. Arkin was the recipient of the Community Leadership Award by the National Points of Light Foundation, the Humanitarian Award from the Orlando chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Tree of Life Award from the Jewish National Fund, the Service to Mankind Award from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, The George Wolly Community Leadership Award from Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando, and the Lynford Lardner Community Service Award from Foley & Lardner LLP.
Mr. Arkin was born in New York City and is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1970) and Lehigh University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1967). He is Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system, and since 2000 has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America®, currently in the specialties of administrative law, corporate law and equipment finance.
Admitted to practice in New York and Florida, Mr. Arkin is a past chairman of the Corporations Committee of The Florida Bar. He has also served as chairman of the legal committee of Airport Operators Council International.