Alexander L.
Ortiz

Alex focuses his practice on complex commercial real estate transactions, including the purchase, sale, leasing, financing and development of commercial real estate projects.

EXPERIENCE

Alex has closed over $3.6 billion in real estate finance transactions nationwide, which transactions included acquisition, construction, development, loan participations and syndications, and multi-property and multi-state real estate financing.

Representative Matters

Real Estate Financing

• Represented lender in a syndicated $970 million portfolio loan that included over ninety real estate assets in over twenty different states.
• Represented lender in a syndicated $272 million portfolio loan that included over fifty real estate assets in six different states.
• Represented lender in a $250 million construction loan for the development of a luxury multifamily project in Boca Raton, Florida that featured the takeover of an existing project, a bridge loan component and subordinate debt.
• Represented lender in a $135 million construction loan for the development of a condominium project by a prestigious luxury hotel brand in Tampa, Florida.
• Represented lender in a $120 million construction loan for the development of a 117,000-square-foot data center located in California for leasing to corporate tenants that included Amazon and Google.
• Represented lender in a $118 million loan for the acquisition of three hotels located across the state of Florida.
• Represented lender in a $100 million revolving credit facility secured by a multi-use shopping center in Massachusetts.
• Represented lender in an $88 million construction loan for the development of two Class-A warehouse and distribution facilities totaling over 990,000 square feet in Stuart, Florida.

Real Estate Acquisitions and Dispositions

• Represented seller in the $83 million joint sale of the Hampton Inn & Suites and AC Hotels in midtown Miami, Florida.
• Represented buyer in $28 million acquisition of hotel, residential and commercial components of the Bentley Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.
• Represented buyer in the $27 million acquisition of a vacant lot relating to the Miami Worldcenter project in downtown Miami, Florida.
• Represented buyer in a $30 million takeover acquisition of a condominium association in Miami Beach, Florida.
• Represented seller in the $56 million sale of River Oaks Marina & Tower in Miami, Florida.

Real Estate Leasing

• Represented landlords in the leasing and development of commercial real estate to institutional tenants such as Cheesecake Factory, Wawa, Verizon Wireless, Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts.

Networks & Affiliations

Member, Real Estate Lenders Association