Ross Kelley

Ross Kelley is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Real Estate practice in Charlotte. He represents alternative asset managers, public REITs, insurance companies and other institutional lenders across the full life of commercial real estate debt, from origination and financing through loan trading, workouts and dispositions. His practice covers senior and mezzanine loan originations, construction and bridge financing, repurchase and loan-on-loan financing, acquisitions and sales of individual loans and large loan portfolios, and origination of A/B notes and junior/senior participations. Ross also regularly advises lenders on workouts, restructurings, amendments and modifications, and on sales of distressed and non-performing loans. His recent work includes significant construction financings for data center projects.

Ross’s clients include Waterfall Asset Management, 26North, Ready Capital, X-Caliber Capital, American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company and PPM America.

Represented:

• A life company in the origination of a $117 million senior loan secured by a portfolio of 3 multifamily properties
• A bridge lender in the origination of a $68 million bridge loan on a multifamily property in Florida
• A bridge lender in the origination of a $66 million bridge loan on a portfolio of multifamily properties in the Southeast
• A life company in the origination of a $38 million construction loan on an industrial property in Florida

• Clemson University, BS
• University of South Carolina School of Law, JD
  Editorial Staff of the South Carolina Journal of International Law & Business

• North Carolina
• South Carolina