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