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Naheem J. Harris
Naheem J. Harris
Counsel — Real Estate
Counsel — Real Estate

Naheem J. Harris

Naheem J. Harris
New York

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

Naheem J. Harris

Experience Highlights

  • The Georgetown Company in the leasehold/tenant improvement financing secured by the lease of 787 11th Avenue

  • A developer in the acquisition of a 280 unit multifamily development in Atlanta, Georgia and the related $90 million acquisition financing

  • 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.

  • A special servicer in the workout of a $75 million mortgage and mezzanine loan secured by a shopping center in Los Angeles, California

  • WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust in its $370 million contribution of its U.S. distribution and logistics properties to a joint venture with the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario

  • Jera Asset Management and Setzer Properties in the formation of a joint venture with the Australian Superannuation Pension Fund, including the roll-up of a seed portfolio of net leased trucking terminal and logistics properties valued at approximately $500 million into the joint venture

  • A hedge fund in a joint venture to acquire an $30 million office park in the suburbs of Miami, Florida

  • The Georgetown Company in the leasehold/tenant improvement financing secured by the lease of 787 11th Avenue

  • A developer in the acquisition of a 280 unit multifamily development in Atlanta, Georgia and the related $90 million acquisition financing

  • A developer in the acquisition of a 400 unit multifamily development in Atlanta, Georgia and the related $150 million acquisition financing

  • A developer in the acquisition of a 262 unit multifamily development in Atlanta, Georgia and the related $57 million acquisition financing

  • A developer in the acquisition of a 268 unit multifamily development in Nashville, Tennessee and the related $62.1 million acquisition financing

  • A developer in the $45 million refinancing of a loan secured by an office building in San Jose, California

  • A developer in the acquisition of a 387 unit multifamily development in Miami, Florida and the related $121.3 million acquisition financing

  • A developer in the acquisition of a 639 unit multifamily development in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the related $142 million acquisition financing and $60 million preferred equity investment

  • 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.

  • A special servicer in the workout of a $75 million mortgage and mezzanine loan secured by a shopping center in Los Angeles, California

  • A real estate investment trust in the purchase and financing of a hotel portfolio consisting of fifty (50) branded hotels

  • A publicly traded company in the leasing of Class A office space in New York, New York

  • 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

  • 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

  • A national bank in the purchase of a $15 million mortgage note for CMBS execution secured by a branded hotel located in Nashville, Tennessee

  • WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust in its $370 million contribution of its U.S. distribution and logistics properties to a joint venture with the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario

  • Jera Asset Management and Setzer Properties in the formation of a joint venture with the Australian Superannuation Pension Fund, including the roll-up of a seed portfolio of net leased trucking terminal and logistics properties valued at approximately $500 million into the joint venture

  • A hedge fund in a joint venture to acquire an $30 million office park in the suburbs of Miami, Florida

  • A hedge fund in a joint venture to develop a 210 unit senior living facility in Central Texas

  • A hedge fund in a joint venture to acquire an $81 million office park in Palm Springs, Florida

  • A developer in the sale of a majority interest in entities owning multifamily developments in Nashville, Tennessee and Fort Lauderdale, Florida

  • A developer in a joint venture to develop a 400 unit multifamily development in Miami, Florida

Credentials

  • Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 2013
  • University of Pennsylvania,  2008
  • Selected to the New York Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2022
  • New York