Overview
Mike Kahn helps real estate investment funds, REITs, private equity firms, domestic and international banks, insurance companies, and private developers with commercial real estate transactions with an emphasis on financing transactions.
Clients look to Mike to guide them through documenting and performing due diligence on their real estate loan transactions when acting as either a lender or a borrower. Mike also represents both agent and member banks in loan syndications.
In addition to Mike’s expertise in lending transactions, he has represented parties in acquisition and disposition transactions and both landlords and tenants in commercial leasing transactions.
Clients look to Mike to guide them through documenting and performing due diligence on their real estate loan transactions when acting as either a lender or a borrower. Mike also represents both agent and member banks in loan syndications.
In addition to Mike’s expertise in lending transactions, he has represented parties in acquisition and disposition transactions and both landlords and tenants in commercial leasing transactions.
Experience
Representative Matters
Acquisition Transactions
- Representation of international boutique hotel investor in the purchase of their first US asset for $15.5 Million, a 147 room hotel on Manhattan’s East Side.
- Representation of a hotel investment firm in the purchase of two franchised Charlotte-area hotels out of bankruptcy for $45 Million.
Borrower Side Financing Transactions
- Representation of a hotel investment firm on the refinance of $65 Million loan secured by a flagged hotel in Los Angeles.
- Representation of the owner of a single-tenant office property in South Carolina in the workout of a CMBS loan with the special servicer.
- Representation of a developer in the assemblage and financing of lots for a proposed New York City multifamily project.
- Representation of a property owner in the restructure of its tenancy-in-common ownership structure regarding a New York City property, purchase of a co-investor’s ownership interests, and refinance of the property’s existing debt.
- Representation of an investor on the $50 Million refinance of existing debt secured by a Houston shopping center which includes the construction of additional space for a new anchor tenant.
Education
- Cornell University, BS
- Fordham University School of Law, JD
Admissions
- New York