Jon S. Robins

Experience: Real Estate Matters: Represented the lead lender group in originating a $200 million CMBS mortgage loan secured by multi-state portfolio of full-service hotels, with aspects representing Top 10 loans in at least four different securitizations.; Represented a global hedge fund in originating a junior mezzanine, ground-up construction loan for a mixed-use project in Brooklyn, NY, which also involved structuring and negotiating inter-creditor arrangements with senior lenders and negation of a participation agreement.; Represented family offices seeking to form a joint venture and crafting the joint venture of a preferred equity investment for the ground-up construction of an urban mixed-use development primarily featuring multi-family housing in Atlanta; later played a key role in the subsequent sale of a preferred interest in that investment to a large private equity fund.; Represented a major student housing provider in restructuring a $300 million mezzanine loan facility held by a sovereign wealth fund.; Represented a hospitality investor in creating a joint venture and acquiring, by ground lease, a development site in Texas for the development of a dual-branded hotel.; Represented a Greater Philadelphia-area borrower in a $102 million CMBS mortgage loan and $48 million mezzanine loan to acquire, renovate, and reposition a major historic Center City Philadelphia office building.; Represented private equity fund in a joint venture with New England-based developers in the acquisition, redevelopment, and conversion of a large Florida shopping mall into an outlet and power center.; Represented a private equity fund in acquiring a majority interest in an Atlanta multi-family property portfolio via recapitalization of the pre-existing joint venture and redemption of prior investor partner.; Represented a Philadelphia-based private equity fund and its joint venture partner in selling a $35 million multi-family housing complex in North Carolina.; Represented a New England-based capital company's subsidiary of a major global corporation in an approximately $50 million receivables purchase facility for Canadian receivables from a Canadian subsidiary of a major French technology and communications company.; Represented a publicly-traded, New York-based REIT in renewing and modifying the office lease of a major global law firm's Center City Philadelphia headquarters.; Represented a mezzanine lender in acquiring a Midwest hotel of a global hospitality chain by UCC sale, negotiating a joint venture agreement between the mezzanine lender and well-known operator of Midwestern hotels; supported the lender's goal of renovating and operating the hotel upon negotiating necessary amendments and assumption of the property's existing securitized senior debt with the special servicer.; The above representations were handled by Mr. Robins prior to him joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.