Troutman Sanders LLP

Troutman Sanders recognizes that every real estate financing transaction is unique and that each situation offers its own opportunities and difficulties for both capital providers and capital users. The Firm’s experience and breadth of practice allow attorneys to anticipate problems and to propose creative solutions. These attorneys believe in a problem-solving approach, an approach that has contributed to the satisfaction and success of clients in periods of growth, as well as, periods of decline in the general economy.

The Troutman Sanders Real Estate Capital Markets Group is composed of lawyers who are engaged in the representation of lenders in securitized real estate financing transactions.  Members of the Group are not only knowledgeable in securitization procedures and requirements but also have experience in real estate law, lending law, bankruptcy law, environmental law, corporate and partnership law, and tax law.

The Group currently represents clients in connection with mortgage loans (including term loans, permanent loans, construction loans, bridge loans, revolving lines of credit, and other credit arrangements secured by real estate) and mezzanine loans.

The real estate secured by these loans include office buildings, hotels, shopping centers, multi-family residential rental buildings, condominiums (both commercial and residential), industrial and warehouse facilities, self-storage facilities, and health care facilities, as well as mixed-use properties.  The Group has closed loans secured by one to more than fifty properties located in one or more states.

Members of the Group have represented many of the lenders who are active in closing and securitizing mortgage and mezzanine loans.

Approach

• Quality of Advice and Work Product — The Group strives to provide clients with the highest quality legal services in structuring, documenting and closing real estate financing transactions, in manner intended both to protect the client’s interests and to consummate each transaction in accordance with the fundamental business arrangements between the parties.
• Responsiveness — Group members pride themselves on their accessibility to clients and other parties to a transaction and on their ability to meet the deadlines of the parties in consummating the transaction.
• Efficiency and Cost Effectiveness — Group members are aware of the sensitive nature of the cost of legal services, and they endeavor to render services in a cost-efficient manner.
• Analyzing environmental issues and environmental site assessments, with the assistance of members of the Firm’s Environmental Practice Group.
• Reviewing contracts with architects, engineers and other third party professionals and obtaining certifications and confirmations from those parties as to compliance of the existing or proposed improvements with building codes, permitting and licensing requirements, and similar matters.
• Analyzing compliance of the existing or proposed improvements with applicable zoning ordinances.
• Reviewing construction contracts and dual-obligee performance and payment bonds.
• Analyzing existing and proposed leases and preparing and negotiating subordination, non-disturbance and attornment agreements, and tenant estoppel certificates.
• Reviewing the organizational, authority and qualification documents of the borrowing entity and other parties to the transaction, and addressing any ERISA issues, with the assistance of members of the Firm’s ERISA Practice Group.
• Preparing and negotiating intercreditor agreements, such as tri-party and buy-sell agreements.
• Negotiating and documenting loan participations and agency arrangements.
• Assisting in loan administration following a closing.
• Modifying and restructuring loan transactions.
• Enforcing clients’ rights and remedies under loan documents.
• Assisting in the management and disposition of properties acquired through foreclosure or deeds in lieu of foreclosure.

In rendering these services, Group members call upon, when appropriate, the extensive resources of the Firm in other areas, such as the Environmental Practice Group, Asset-Based Financing Group, Commercial Real Estate Leasing Practice Group, Corporate and Banking Practice Group, Tax Practice Group, ERISA Practice Group and Litigation Section, including the Bankruptcy Practice Group and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Group.

Troutman Sanders embraces diversity as a cornerstone of our future. It means, in part, a commitment by all of our attorneys and all other personnel to a shared vision and the establishment of a workplace environment that is fully inclusive. The Firm values diversity in that it enables the Firm both to take full advantage of the knowledge and talents of a multicultural team in order to meet and exceed individual and business goals and client expectations, and to meet the Firm’s obligation to provide the broadest possible range of opportunities to the members of the communities served by the Firm.

Troutman Sanders defines diversity as an environment of inclusion, in which race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability, background and social and ethnic group differences are accepted and valued, and all members of the Firm can contribute to their fullest potential to achieve the Firm’s business goals.

Troutman Sanders supports many initiatives that foster an inclusive environment and help all its personnel balance commitments to clients and family:

Domestic Partnership Benefits

Troutman Sanders offers domestic partnership insurance benefits and has a longstanding policy against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Women’s Forum

The Troutman Sanders Women’s Forum is a framework to increase the visibility of our women lawyers and their accomplishments, provide expanded professional and business development opportunities, and provide a supportive environment for the continued recruitment, promotion and retention of women lawyers firm-wide.

Moms' Group

The Moms' Group at Troutman Sanders includes both full and part-time women lawyers with children of all ages and provides the opportunity to discuss issues of common concern among a support network such as part-time employment options with the firm and child-care providers.

Charitable Giving

The firm allocates a significant amount of its annual charitable, diversity, and civic contributions budget toward nonprofit organizations and bar associations with a diverse constituency or whose mission directly influences the issue of diversity.  These organizations include the Latin American Association, National Association of Chinese Americans, Stonewall Bar Association , Georgia Hispanic Chamber,  National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), Equality Virginia,  Stakeholders, Inc., Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), YWCA, HRNEW, The Urban League, and Catalyst, Inc.

Recruiting

Troutman Sanders proactively recruits a diverse team of lawyers by visiting law school campuses and participating in minority job fairs, including the Lavender Law Job Fair, Southeast Minority Job Fair, Mid-Atlantic BLSA Minority Job Fair and Virginia Bar Association Minority Job Fair.  The firm also sponsors a variety of associations that connect minority law students to internships and job opportunities in the legal industry. 

Ongoing efforts to promote and foster an inclusive environment are lead by the Troutman Sanders Diversity Committee. Its primary goals are to implement the firm’s philosophy on diversity, ensure a welcoming workplace for all personnel, and make an impact on the community through charitable giving and pro bono service.

Members of the Diversity Committee are:

Sallie A. Daniel, Chief Diversity Officer
Ronald R. Ross, Chairperson **
Pamela S. Belleman ** 
Robert L. Bourguignon **
Julie L. Burgener **
Albert C. Hwang **
Molly F. James **
Jennifer Mathis **
Joseph M. Parker **
John M. Ramirez **
E. Fitzgerald Veira **
Sonia K. Bain
Sandra L. Brown
Michael D. Hobbs, Jr.
Roscoe C. Howard, Jr.
Prashant K. Khetan
M. Kevin McCusty
George L. Scruggs
Rebecca W. Shanlever
Wendelin W. Silliman
Anthony F. Troy
Jerome Walker
Farah S. Ahmed * 
Meredith N. Baron *
George G. Booker *
Alonso J. Cisneros *
Tameka M. Collier *
Sara H. Doran *
Kaleen Serena Ford *
Becki F. Kieffer *
Adam S. Libove *
Christina M. Lucio *
Nora Garcia Nickel *
Tashwanda C. Pinchback *
S. Kaveh E. Rashidi-Yazd *
Jimmy R. Rock *
Tania S. Sebastian *
Ashante Latanya Smith *
Matt J. Sperling *
Juliet G. Sy * 
Whitney S. Waldenberg *

* Elected by Associates
** Office Committee Chair