Mark S Edelstein

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Mark Edelstein is chair of Morrison Foerster’s Global Real Estate Group and co-chair of the Distressed Real Estate Group. He has over three decades of experience representing leading financial institutions, real estate companies, owners, acquirers, sellers, and investors in some of their most high-profile transactions.

Mark practices in the areas of real estate, REIT, and fund finance; private equity; workouts; restructurings; and bankruptcies. He regularly represents lenders and others in a wide variety of mortgage and construction loan transactions, and unsecured and borrowing base financings, involving—among other asset types—office, commercial, retail, industrial, multi-family, hospitality, healthcare, homebuilding, and condominium and cooperatives. He also represents lenders and others in complex real estate workouts, restructurings, and chapter 11 proceedings. Few lawyers have Mark’s experience with and understanding of syndicated, securitized, and participated loan arrangements, subscription lines, A/B note transactions, mezzanine financing, EB-5 transactions, bond financing, and complex intercreditor and co-lender agreements.

Mark has been routinely involved in numerous projects that have reshaped and are reshaping the New York City skyline. Sample projects include 50 Hudson Yards, One Vanderbilt, the new Time Warner Building (30 Hudson Yards), St. John’s Terminal, the Spiral, Deutsche Bank Center (One Columbus Circle), One57, VIA 57 West (the Durst Organization pyramid building located at 625 West 57th Street), the Museum of Modern Art Tower, the Baccarat Hotel, Greenwich Lane, 15 Central Park West, 56 Leonard Street, One Five One (formerly known as the Condé Nast Building/4 Times Square), One Manhattan Square, 111 Murray Street, Pacific Park (formerly known as the Atlantic Yards), 125 Greenwich Street, The Eleventh (76 Eleventh Avenue), 555 Tenth Avenue, One Bryant Park, Gotham West, 5 Times Square, Times Square Tower, and many others.