Michael V. Morelli

In addition, Mike represents leading investment banking firms, commercial banks and borrowers in domestic and cross-border capital markets transactions and leveraged bank transactions. Mike has experience with financing transactions in a variety of real estate related industries including gaming, hotels, resorts, office, residential and mixed-use developments.

Mike joined Mayer Brown in 2002.

• €47 million loan to finance the acquisition of an approximately 4,200 acre site in the Tuscany region of Italy and to fund construction related costs for the development of a hotel and related villas on the site.
• $795 million loan for a luxury hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.
• $65 million of financing for the construction of a resort (including a hotel and fractional interests) in Los Cabos, Mexico.
• $285 million loan to refinance a resort and hotel in Orlando, Florida.

Property Transactions

• Representation of a real estate management and development company with the $835 million acquisition of a portfolio of 16 multi-family properties in the cities of Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and Denver.
• Acted on behalf of a prominent New York City developer in connection with numerous multi-family developments in Manhattan, Long Island City and Brooklyn.
• Represented the purchaser in connection with the $275 million acquisition of an outdoor shopping mall located on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California.
• Counsel to a large real estate investment trust and certain of its subsidiaries in connection with its $270 million joint venture acquisition and financing of 12 self-storage facilities located in New York and New Jersey.
• Representation of the purchaser in connection with the $78 million acquisition of The Rhinelander Mansion in New York City.
• Continued representation of one of the world’s leading real asset investment managers in connection with acquisitions and dispositions throughout the United States with a total transactional value in excess of $3 billion.