Ellen Shapiro has a client-focused, results-oriented real estate practice with significant experience in all aspects of the hospitality industry. She also focuses her finance practice on real estate, asset-based lending and community development lending.

Ellen has represented borrowers, institutional lenders, sellers, purchasers, hotel owners and hotel management companies.

Ellen has experience representing these clients on all aspects of structuring domestic and cross-border asset-based financings, as well as leveraged commercial and real estate financings and mezzanine financings and related restructurings and workouts.

代表性执业经验

• Representing leading institutional lenders with mortgage and mezzanine financings of individual commercial (office, hospitality and large residential) assets ranging from US$10 million to US$235 million.
• Advising investor groups on diverse projects such as a US$100 million 40-acre telecom property workout requiring re-entitlement for mixed-use development.
• Representing investors in a US$100 million, 30-acre resort and spa, construction project.
• Representing a consortium of investors including a leading investment bank and major real estate investors in a preferred and common equity investment in a publicly held hotel management company, the creation of an acquisition fund for hotel properties and the merger of this publicly held hotel management company with and into another publicly held hotel management company.
• Representing a bank in a US$85 million syndicated asset-based lending transaction involving a company in the seafood industry.
• Representing an agent bank in a US$130 million syndicated asset-based lending transaction involving a loan portfolio sales company.