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Vinson & Elkins’ Real Estate Investment & Finance team combines business acumen, industry and market knowledge, and support from a globally recognized Finance practice to serve as trusted counselors to our clients. In advising and representing clients, our lawyers go beyond the deal to offer proactive guidance and risk-avoidance strategies.
Providing the full range of real estate investment services, V&E’s Real Estate Investment & Finance lawyers structure, negotiate, document, and close real estate acquisitions, investments, sales, and loan arrangements across the United States. We have experience with every class of commercial real estate, including retail, office, industrial, multifamily, hotel, and mixed-use properties.
We also advise on strategic investments, portfolio management, financing and refinancing of real estate investments, and distressed loans. V&E lawyers represent institutional and entrepreneurial lenders and investors, including real estate funds, REITs, joint ventures, and property owners. We also counsel developers with building and managing their property portfolios, addressing intercreditor issues, and assisting with asset evaluation, environmental due diligence, and compliance concerns.
We advise lenders, borrowers, and investors on all aspects of finance—from loan origination, capital deployment, and loan administration through refinancings, troubled loan workouts, and loan payoffs. The V&E team handles multi-property, multi-state, and multiparty financings, construction loans, and a full range of creative debt structuring and financing arrangements, including structured financings, commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) transactions, syndicated credit facilities, permanent loans, and mezzanine loans. Our lawyers know the product types and leading market terms, and deftly employ innovative structuring techniques to meet lender, investor, and borrower needs. Further, we work to optimize lender investment returns and secure their investments, while maximizing loan flexibility, and minimizing finance costs for borrowers and tax implications for investors.
The Related Companies, L.P. in its $242.5 million construction loan to finance the construction of a 25-story mixed-use building in West Palm Beach, Florida, which is expected to include approximately 277,000 rentable square feet
The Georgetown Company in a construction loan and development joint venture with Mohari Hospitality to develop a decommissioned steam heating plant in Washington, D.C. into a luxury hotel and condominium building and public park run by the Four Seasons
Real estate operating company in obtaining a construction loan in the maximum principal amount of up to $290 million for the construction of a 30-story office development located in Dallas, Texas
Spear Street Capital in its acquisition and financing of 2000 K Street NW, a 233,292 square foot, 12-story, office building in Washington, D.C.
Clarion Partners in the $75 million portfolio loan secured by five buildings located in Texas, California, Nevada, and Georgia
Basis Industrial in a senior secured term loan and mezzanine loan from Extra Space Storage LP secured by property located at 2899 Whiteford Rd, York, Pennsylvania, a self-storage facility containing 1,000 units and includes approximately 97,839 net rentable square feet
Spear Street Capital in the sale of its interest in the land located at 3120 Buffalo Speedway in Houston, Texas to Transwestern, its joint venture partner, and issuance of a mezzanine loan to Transwestern
Real estate investment firm in the collateral substitution of two industrial buildings in Houston, Texas with one industrial building in Austin, Texas, in connection with an existing $75 million portfolio loan from New York Life Insurance Company
Basis Industrial in a senior secured term loan and mezzanine loan from Extra Space Storage LP secured by a self-storage facility in Carmel, New York containing 542 units and includes approximately 52,313 net rentable square feet
A real estate development firm in the acquisition and debt and equity financing of a six-property industrial portfolio in Texas and Florida
Real estate investment firm in a portfolio loan secured by seven properties located in Arizona, California, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas
Real estate investment firm in a revolving credit facility in the original principal amount of up to $400 million subject to increase to up to $750 million
A real estate investment company and its operating partner in the $70 million acquisition and associated financing of a 270-unit multifamily complex on approximately 33 acres in Durham, North Carolina
The Related Companies in a $140 million construction loan with a $35 million preferred equity contribution for the redevelopment of a 21 story mixed-use tower located in West Palm Beach, Florida with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as the Senior Lender and with Morrison Foerster representing the Lender
Real estate investment firm in the release of six industrial buildings in two parks and substitution of three industrial buildings in Georgia as collateral for a $71.7 million loan
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May 22, 2026
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Tannenbaum Capital Group (TCG) and Vinson & Elkins, united by a shared commitment to community impact, are proud to present …
April 9, 2026
April 9, 2026 • 1-minute read
Event Recaps
The speakers discussed capital raising alternatives available to real estate companies and REITs in today’s evolving market landscape.
September 30, 2025
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Client Alerts
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April 24, 2024 • V&E+ Views
April 24, 2024 • 7-minute read
