Justin S. Mei is an associate in the firm’s Real Estate Department.

Experience

His practice focuses on the financing, acquisition or disposition of commercial real estate assets, including: self-storage, hotels, condominium projects and multi-family developments. Justin represents lenders, private debt funds, owners, operators, and investors.

Representative Matters

His representative matters include:

• Owner/Operator of self-storage properties in the United States in connection with:
  • $479 million mortgage financing covering 40 self-storage properties across 13 states;
  • $122 million mortgage financing covering 12 self-storage properties across 9 states; and
  • $470 million mortgage and $120 million mezzanine financing covering 45 self-storage properties across 15 states.
• Owner/Operator with the acquisition of, and $31.5 million mortgage financing covering, 2 self-storage properties in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
• Owner/Operator with the disposition (with seller financing) of a flagged hotel in Long Island, New York for $20 million.
• A private fund with two contributions of real property valued at $215 million (16 property portfolio in New York) and $217 million (16 property portfolio across 9 states) in exchange for limited partnership interests.
• A construction lender with a $70 million mortgage loan, $23 million senior mezzanine loan and $15 million junior mezzanine loan for the construction of a mixed-use project (primarily condominium) in New York City, New York.
• A private debt fund, in several transactions, including:
  • Formation of Fund I, with a target raise of $30 million, and of Fund II, with a target raise of $75 million; and
  • $12 million bridge loan covering 34 single family residences across 5 states.

• A lender, in several transactions, including:
  • $21.5 million bridge loan for the build-out of two commercial condominium units (80,000 NRSF) plus a 293 space parking garage in Queens, New York.
  • $30 million mortgage financing for the acquisition of 46 mixed-use properties across 12 states.