Katie represents sophisticated lenders, investors, and developers in complex commercial real estate transactions. Katie focuses on commercial real estate transactions, with an emphasis on real estate finance transactions for financial institutions and real estate investors, including institutional lenders, REITs, and real estate private equity funds. These transactions include commercial real estate mortgage and mezzanine loan originations, construction and development, loan syndications and participations, public debt and equity financings, asset-based loans, and loan workouts and restructurings. She also advises clients in connection with retail and office leasing matters, and real estate acquisitions and dispositions.

Katie is a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and regularly coordinates and participates in the DC Office’s Elder Law Clinic, which the firm runs in partnership with Legal Services of Northern Virginia.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, magna cum laude, Senior Notes Editor, George Mason Law Review, 2007

BA, English, Hamilton College, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2002

• Represented lenders in various transactions secured by real and personal property.
• Assisted with representation of lead and participating lenders and borrowers in syndicated loan transactions, both secured and unsecured.
• Assisted with representation of lenders in connection with financing for the acquisition of several gas station portfolios, totaling over 300 stations in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
• Represented clients in connection with real estate development, leasing, construction, corporate formation and corporate governance issues.

• Member, Virginia Bar Association