Paul Roberts is an Attorney in the Firm’s Salt Lake City office and a member of the Real Estate practice group. Mr. Roberts has extensive experience representing national and regional banks, insurance companies, and private lenders in complex real estate secured lending transactions involving a broad range of real property collateral, including office, multifamily, retail, medical, hotel/resort, industrial, and self-storage properties and leasehold interests. Mr. Roberts routinely represents lenders in connection with a variety of different loan types involving collateral located throughout the country, including multi-property and multi-state transactions.

Awards and Honors

• Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America – 2025

Bar Admissions

• Utah
• Washington
• Colorado

Significant Accomplishments
<ul><li>Represented a national bank in connection with a $115mm term facility secured by 16 self-storage properties located in 11 states.</li><li>Represented the administrative agent and lead lender in connection with a $50mm syndicated construction loan to build a 215,000 square feet office building and 280,000 square feet parking garage in Salt Lake City, Utah.</li><li>Represented a national bank in connection with a $34mm construction loan to finance the construction of a three-phase distribution center project on ground leased property located in Las Vegas, Nevada.</li><li>Represented the administrative agent and lead lender in connection with a $97mm syndicated loan to finance the acquisition and refurbishment of a 200,000 square feet mixed use office and retail building in downtown Bellevue, Washington. This particular loan involved more than $20mm in holdbacks to finance the renovation of the property.</li><li>Represented the administrative agent and lead lender in connection with a $52mm syndicated construction loan to build a 150,000 square feet apartment building in Seattle, Washington.</li><li>Represented a national bank in connection with a $36mm loan to finance the acquisition and renovation of a 256-unit multi-family project located in Puyallup, Washington, as part of a reverse 1031 exchange.</li><li>Represented a national bank in connection with the origination of a portfolio of loans totaling $52mm secured by a large mixed-use project located in Salt Lake City, Utah, involving office, retail, restaurant, and movie theater assets.</li><li>Represented a national bank in connection with the origination (and subsequent consolidation) of three separate loans totaling$35mm secured by 7 apartment buildings located in various cities throughout North Dakota.</li><li>Represented a national bank in connection with a $20mm construction loan to finance the conversion of an existing office tower to a 140-unit multi-family project.</li><li>Represented a private lender in connection with 20+ construction loans totaling more than $100mm in connection with development projects located in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, and Utah.</li><li>Represented a national bank in connection with a $37mm construction loan to finance a 236-unit apartment building built on ground leased property in Boise, Idaho.</li></ul>