Overview

Katheryn McCarthy serves clients on a spectrum of real estate transactions, including representing institutional lenders, life insurance companies, venture capital firms, small businesses and non-profits in the following areas:

  • Acquisition
  • Disposition
  • Leasing of Office and Biotechnology spaces
  • Financing of Office, Retail, Hospitality, Multi-Family Properties, and Private Schools
  • Joint ventures
  • Workouts
  • Foreclosures

Katheryn previously worked at another major international law firm, and served as an extern to Judge Kim McClane Wardlaw, United States Court Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Areas of Focus

Practices

Experience

Represented:

  • A large lender group in securing a $2 billion financing involving multiple tiers of debt with security instruments on approximately 55 institutional properties in 15 states.
  • A real estate investment trust in negotiating a ground lease with a publicly traded logistics company.
  • Major iInsurance company lender in numerous loan modifications related to the impacts of COVID-19.
  • Real Estate Investment Trust in numerous lease modifications related to the impacts of COVID-19.
  • Insurance company lender in a $300 million mortgage loan secured by an outdoor mall and first class office property.
  • Insurance company lender in a $175 million mortgage loan secured by a luxury resort.
  • Institutional lender in the origination and subsequent upsize of a $220 million mortgage loan secured by a downtown Los Angeles high- rise building.
  • Institutional lender in a $360 million mortgage loan secured by a high- profile outdoor mall in Los Angeles.
  • Institutional lender in a $368 million portfolio mortgage loan secured by office properties.
  • Institutional lead lender in the restructuring of a $98 million construction loan in receivership.
  • Investor in assessing multiple complex development projects.
  • Investor in establishing a $100 million “platform” for investments with an identified partner.
  • Investor in assessing and amending multiple joint venture agreements to account for changed circumstances such as manager default and additional preferred equity “bail out” contributions.
  • Homebuilders in the acquisition of raw land for development.
  • Purchaser of a manufacturing business in negotiating a single tenant lease for continued operation of the existing facility.
  • Publicly -traded real estate investment trust in negotiating multiple site leases with major supermarket chains.
  • Institutional lender in originating a mortgage loan to a vacation club secured by vacation club properties, including (in conjunction with bankruptcy attorneys) through subsequent bankruptcy of the vacation club borrower and full repayment of secured debt.
  • Institutional lender in negotiating a forbearance agreement and deed in lieu of foreclosure for a mixed use property in Oregon.
  • Institutional lender in the judicial foreclosure of a mortgage loan secured by a hotel.
  • Investor in the purchase of a defaulted mortgage loan from an institutional lender and subsequent foreclosure of the security instrument.

Perspectives

Education

University of Southern California Gould School of Law, JD
Order of the Coif; Staff, Southern California Law Review

University of Notre Dame

Admissions

  • California

Activities

  • Consultative Board for Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary School in Pasadena from 2012-2017
  • Board of Directors for Sierra Madre Girls’ Softball Association from 2019-2021
  • Odyssey of the Mind Coach 2019-2021   
  • California Real Estate Broker's License
  • Received the “Outstanding Young Lawyer Award” from the Real Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.