Associé

Ryan Sawyer

Hospitality & Leisure, Real Estate

Washington DC +1 202 263 3084

RSawyer@mayerbrown.com

Aperçu

Ryan W. Sawyer advises clients on a variety of commercial real estate transactions, including joint venture formation, financings, development, restructurings, and asset-level and entity-level acquisitions and dispositions. He has experience working with institutional investment funds, public companies, real estate developers, and REITs.

Expérience

Ryan has represented:

A non-traded real estate investment trust in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Equity Inns Lodging Portfolio from affiliates of Whitehall Real Estate Funds. The portfolio included 116 hotels with a combined 13,744 rooms across 31 states. The acquisition established the REIT as one of the largest select-service hotel REITs in North America.
A partnership in the sale of the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes, the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes, including the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, and the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, including the Wildfire Golf Club, for a purchase price of $1.245 billion.
A real estate investment firm in multiple programmatic joint ventures (including investments in the underlying operating companies) for the acquisition, development, and operation of hotels in the United States and the Caribbean, including the creation of an OpCo/PropCo and co-GP structure.
A real estate investment firm in the restructuring of a joint venture for the development and operation of a ski resort.

An alternative asset management firm in the acquisition of multiple hotels and an investment into the operating company to develop a new hotel brand.
A publicly traded REIT in the sale of a hotel in Key West, Florida for a purchase price of $94 million and the assignment of existing management agreements and franchise agreements.
A joint venture in the acquisition and financing of 21 student housing apartment complexes for a purchase price of approximately $1.5 billion from a publicly traded real estate company. The financing consisted of multiple facilities which totaled approximately $700 million in new debt.
An alternative asset management firm in its acquisition of 100% of the fee simple interests and 50% of the ground leasehold interests in a portfolio of 52 office properties. The portfolio consists of almost four million rentable square feet of office space in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina. The deal involved the bifurcation of the fee and ground leasehold estates, establishment of a new joint venture, and negotiating fee/leasehold/mezzanine financing documents ($350 million).
An alternative asset management firm in a loan portfolio acquisition consisting of over 500 loans with an aggregate outstanding principal balance of almost $308 million. The loans are secured by mortgages in more than 20 different states.
A publicly traded REIT in the UPREIT acquisition of the fee and leasehold interests in the 34-acre site located in Yonkers, New York for a purchase price of $51.7 million.
A real estate investment trust with the closing of a $205 million CMBS financing secured by its leasehold interest in an 825-room hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.
A real estate investment firm in its joint venture investment in 10 Post Office Square, a 13-story office building located in Boston, Massachusetts, and certain shares in corporations which own the Post Office Square Parking Garage.
A Delaware Statutory Trust in the sale of multifamily properties for over $270 million.
An alternative asset management firm in the buyout of its joint venture partners in multiple logistics assets and the recapitalization and refinancing of such investments.
A real estate private equity firm in its formation of a joint venture, acquisition of a property on South Wacker Drive in Chicago, Illinois for $155.25 million, and mortgage financing in the amount of $133.7 million.
A publicly traded REIT with the closing of a $127.5 million CMBS financing.
A global private equity investor in a $100 million subscription secured credit facility.
A real estate private equity firm in its formation of a joint venture, acquisition of property in Brooklyn, New York ($46 million), and mortgage/redevelopment financing in the amount of $51 million.
A multi-national construction, property, and infrastructure company in connection with its acquisition of a vacant parcel in East Boston, Massachusetts for the development of a mixed use complex (residential/retail/restaurant).
A joint venture between publicly traded REITs with an $80 million mortgage loan to refinance a retail shopping center.

Compétences et Secteurs liés

Domaines de compétences

Real Estate

Secteurs

Hospitality & Leisure

Publications et Interventions

Actualités
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Distinctions

Ones to Watch – The Best Lawyers in America
Top Attorneys – The Best Lawyers in America

Formation

Suffolk University School of Law, JD
Suffolk University — Sawyer School of Business, MFN
University of Vermont, BS

Inscription au Barreau

Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Not admitted in the District of Columbia. Practicing under the supervision of firm principals.