Ryan’s practice focuses on commercial real estate lending.

Ryan practices in the area of commercial real estate lending, specializing in representing different types of lenders, including international, national and regional banks; insurance companies; and private lenders, in connection with real estate financing transactions (CMBS, balance sheet, first lien and mezzanine/preferred equity).

Relevant Experience

• Represented an investment bank on a $45 million first mortgage construction financing for a ground up mixed-use development in Aurora, Colorado, which development required additional financing from preferred equity and municipal bonds through PILOT and PIF programs.
• Represented a national insurance company on a $52.75 million renovation financing for an office building in New York, New York, which loan was bifurcated into first mortgage and preferred equity components.
• Represented an investment bank on a $60 million note-on-note financing secured by a $90 million first mortgage loan on a dual-branded hotel in Chicago, Illinois.

• Represented a national insurance company on a $150 million first mortgage construction financing for a ground up mixed-use development comprising 236,000 square feet of residential space and 52,000 square feet of ground-level retail space in Los Angeles, California.
• Represented a California-based developer on a $13.75 million financing for a 60,000-square-foot value-added industrial/office renovation, with tenancy-in-common structure, in Hawthorne, California.
• Represented an investment bank on a $10 million permanent financing secured by a fully leased 50,000-square-foot “life sciences” industrial building in Berkeley, California.
• Represented an international bank on an $11.3 million first mortgage CMBS loan secured by a 50,000-square-foot shopping center with major anchor tenants in Mount Vernon, Washington.
• Represented an international bank on a $13 million first mortgage CMBS loan secured by a 147,000-square-foot shopping center with major anchor tenants in Stockton, California.
• Represented an international bank on a $7 million first mortgage CMBS loan secured by a franchised hotel in Sacramento, California.
• Represented a CMBS lender in the refinancing of several multifamily complexes in Houston, Texas, totaling $65 million, with tenancy-in-common structure.
• Represented a CMBS lender in multiproperty self-storage portfolio loan throughout Texas, totaling $21.5 million.
• Represented a national life insurance company in connection with the origination of over $50 million of commercial mortgage loans in California.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, cum laude, 2012BS, Purdue University, 2007