Nathan McMichael

Real Estate

Washington DC +1 202 263 3376

nmcmichael@mayerbrown.com

“Nathan is very client-centered. He thinks about problems that are big-picture, not just the work that's in front of him, and solves problems.”

Chambers USA

Overview

Nathan McMichael is a senior partner in the Real Estate practice. His practice focuses on structuring and executing complex transactional real estate matters, with an emphasis on joint ventures, financings, acquisitions and dispositions. Nathan’s clients include private equity and opportunity funds, developers-sponsors, insurance companies, real estate investment advisors, pension funds and pension fund advisors, banks, asset managers and other capital providers. He has extensive experience in all types of equity and debt transactions involving a wide variety of asset classes, including multifamily, build to rent single family, data centers, industrial, manufactured housing, marinas, senior living, self-storage, office (commercial and medical), hotels, casinos, resorts, and shopping centers.

Experience

Represented multi-billion dollar opportunity fund in various joint venture transactions involving the development and financing of multifamily apartment, industrial, single family residential, and independent living projects across the United States.
Represented a state pension fund manager in the formation of a programmatic joint venture and acquisition of a multi-state portfolio of medical office facilities.
Represented a real estate investment fund in the formation of multiple joint ventures with prominent apartment builders to acquire and develop multi-family apartment projects, with related construction financing.
Represented a private equity investment firm in the joint venture with a leading real estate investment and development firm operator to buy single family home and townhome projects from homebuilders for rental, and related construction financings.

Represented a private equity investment firm in connection the forward sale of a 100-acre adaptive re-use life sciences campus to an institutional core fund investor.
Represented a private equity investment firm with a programmatic joint venture for the acquisition and development of manufactured housing communities.
Represented an institutional investor in the formation of a joint venture with a prominent developer to acquire a ground lease from the port authority of a major city and develop a multi-phase industrial facility, and the related complex financing component that included preferred equity.
Represented global insurance company in the sale of portfolio of office buildings.
Represented an opportunity fund in the joint venture with a prominent self-storage owner and operator to acquire a large portfolio of self-storage properties.
Represented a prominent multifamily owner and developer in the formation of a joint venture with an international financial institution for the development of a core mixed use project, including multifamily, office and retail components.
Represented real estate investor in connection with the acquisition, redevelopment and disposition of a super-yacht marina.
Represented a national commercial bank in the workout and restructuring of a repurchase facility and underlying mortgage loans secured by a variety of property types, including a renowned resort and multifamily housing developments.

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Publications & Presentations

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- Legal Update
  US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit Enjoins Florida's Restrictions on Persons from Foreign Countries of Concern Acquiring Real Estate – But Only for Two Individual Plaintiffs
  February 12, 2024

Education

Villanova University School of Law, JD
Villanova Environmental Law Journal, Associate Editor; Dean's Merit Scholarship
James Madison University, BA

Admissions

District of Columbia
North Carolina
Pennsylvania

Courts

US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Professional & Community Involvement

Urban Land Institute
Cystic Fibrosis, Carolinas Chapter, Board Member