Kimberly Witzke

Experience: Joint Ventures: Represented a health care REIT in connection with forming a joint venture with an investment advisory firm to own and operate 24 properties worth over $550 million across more than a dozen states.; Represented an international alternative investment management company in connection with forming its joint venture with an owner and operator of student housing communities to purchase and own multiple student housing portfolios for $1 billion.; Represented an investment bank in connection with entering into a joint venture with a developer to redevelop a historic landmark building in Chicago, IL.; Represented an insurance company in connection with entering into a joint venture with an owner and operator of affordable multifamily assets to acquire and develop a multifamily property in Texas.; Represented a real estate developer in connection with a joint venture to purchase, own and operate a multifamily property in uptown Manhattan.; Acquisitions, Dispositions and Membership Interest Purchase and Sales: Represented a health care REIT in connection with its sale of 34 medical office buildings and senior housing facilities for $1 billion.; Represented a private equity company in connection with its restructuring and acquisition of a portfolio of industrial warehouses in multiple states for $295 million.; Represented a global asset management firm in connection with its acquisition of membership interests to own a campus of multi-tenant office buildings along with a deed for adjacent vacant land in Andover, Massachusetts for approximately $85 million.; Represented an organization that owns property designated as a U.S. National Historic Landmark in several transactions to sell air rights to a major financial institution and real estate developers under the East Midtown Rezoning plan.; Complex Commercial Real Estate Transactions: Represented a health care REIT in connection with entering into a joint venture with an institutional buyer, restructuring its portfolio of medical office buildings in 25 states and the sale of such portfolio to the newly formed joint venture for over $750 million.; Represented a health care REIT in connection with its restructuring of a series of portfolios of assets, entering into multiple tri-party joint ventures with a health-care focused investment firm and various operators, and acquiring membership interests in multiple portfolios of health care facilities across multiple states for approximately $700 million.; Represented a life science REIT in connection with a joint venture with a real estate investor to purchase and finance the headquarters of a large pharmaceutical company at 219 E. 42nd St. and 235 E. 42nd St. for a total of $363.5 million with a leaseback.; Represented a health care REIT in connection with a joint venture, management agreement and restructuring to own and operate a portfolio of medical office buildings and senior housing communities across multiple states.; Development Transactions: Represented a life science REIT in connection with the pre-development and ground lease of a skyscraper in New York City.; Represented a real estate developer in connection with a joint venture with a foreign public pension fund and a $640 million construction loan to develop a luxury apartment complex in Long Island City, Queens.; Represented a real estate developer in connection with multi-tier joint ventures with a foreign real estate developer and a foreign wealth management service provider and a $380 million construction loan from a major financial institution for the development of a mixed-use property in Brooklyn.; Represented a sovereign wealth fund in connection with forming a joint venture with a foreign public pension fund and an institutional investor to acquire and develop 27 industrial distribution centers across 10 states for approximately $85 million.; Real Estate Financing: Represented a major financial institution in connection with $1.5 billion of construction financing to a developer for its One Vanderbilt office tower, a 67-story, 1.73 million-square-foot, state-of-the-art office tower on a one-acre full city block bordered by Madison and Vanderbilt Avenues and 42nd and 43rd Streets, adjacent to Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan.; Represented a major financial institution in connection with $750 million in financing for One New York Plaza, a 50-story office and retail tower with 2.5 million square feet of office space and 38,000 square feet of retail, located in New York City's Financial District.; Represented a multinational hospitality company in providing a $100 million junior loan and franchise agreement as part of the $1.9 billion recapitalization of the Atlantis Resort, Nassau, Bahamas.; Represented a multinational hospitality company in providing a mezzanine loan, credit support and franchise agreement in connection with a $500 million construction loan from several major financial institutions and subsequent $800 million refinancing for the development of a resort and convention center in Colorado.; The above representations were handled by Ms. Witzke prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.