
Naheem J. Harris

The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
32nd Floor
New York, NY 10036

Naheem’s practice focuses on a wide range of real estate matters, such as financing, real estate development, partnerships and joint ventures, investment sales and acquisitions and leasing matters.
Experience Highlights
Represented a national bank in the origination of a $196 million mortgage secured by a first-class office building in West Hollywood, California. Representation also included (i) a post-closing note split into a Note A (for CMBS execution) and Note B, and (ii) the sale of Note B to an institutional lender.
Represented a special servicer in the workout of a $75 million mortgage and mezzanine loan secured by a shopping center in Los Angeles, California
Represented a real estate investment trust in the purchase and financing of a hotel portfolio consisting of fifty (50) branded hotels
Represented publicly traded company in the leasing of Class A office space in New York, New York
Represented a national bank in the origination of an $81 million mortgage secured by a portfolio of twelve (12) branded hotels located throughout Wisconsin
Represented a national bank in the origination of (i) a $427 million mortgage secured by a portfolio of seventeen (17) branded hotels located throughout the country (for CMBS execution as a single asset securitization), which included representing the lender until the closing of the securitization transaction) and (ii) a $365 million mortgage secured by a portfolio of five (5) branded hotels located throughout the country, which included the defeasance of then-existing debt and the assignment of a note held by a municipality to the lender
Represented a national bank in the origination of a $110 million mortgage secured by a partial fee and partial leasehold interest in a first-class mixed use building in San Francisco, California; Representation included the post-closing origination of mezzanine debt in connection with the pay-down of the mortgage debt and the sale of the mezzanine debt to an insurance company
Represented a national bank in the origination of an $85 million mortgage, partially for CMBS execution, secured by a first-class office building in New York, New York. Representation also included the sale of Note B to an institutional lender
Represented a national bank in the purchase of a $15 million mortgage note for CMBS execution secured by a branded hotel located in Nashville, Tennessee
Represented a national bank in the origination of a $1.1 billion mortgage and mezzanine loan secured by a first-class mixed use building in New York, New York and equity in the owners thereof
Credentials
- Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 2013
- University of Pennsylvania, 2008
- New York
- Energy EvolutionDecember 31, 2020
- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseMarch 19, 2020