John Busillo

Practice Areas

With over 40 years of practice, John Busillo focuses on commercial real estate finance and the workout and disposition of distressed commercial real estate. He advises insurance companies, major financial institutions, commercial and investment banks, public sector entities, real estate investment trusts, and real estate developers and advisors in numerous sophisticated transactions. These transactions involve office buildings, regional shopping centers, hotels, resorts, multifamily residential complexes, mixed-use projects, healthcare-related projects, single-tenant retail sites, warehouse and industrial sites, and commercial and residential condominium and cooperative apartment projects.

John has extensive experience in the origination, restructuring, and workout of commercial mortgage and mezzanine loans and the sale and purchase (and foreclosure) of those loans. He regularly counsels clients on the origination, restructuring, workout, sale and purchase of commercial mortgage loans headed for securitization or previously securitized, or held for portfolio or in debt funds, including extensive insurance company portfolio and debt fund lending experience. John also has substantial experience in credit lease-backed financings, mezzanine financings, mezzanine and junior note sales and purchases, senior/subordinate note and participation structures, construction loans, cell tower and timber financings and other infrastructure financings, Shariah financings, and franchise loans.