Michelle Kelban

Practice Areas

Michelle Kelban, Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Real Estate Practice, advises clients on a range of complex and prominent real estate transactions, including capital raising and financing, acquisitions, joint venture recapitalizations, and workouts and restructurings.

Nationally recognized as a leading real estate lawyer, Ms. Kelban serves a variety of key market players, including private equity firms, US and foreign investors, institutional lenders, and family offices. She leverages her broad-based experience to help clients successfully navigate all types of real estate transactions across an array of asset classes. Ms. Kelban brings particular experience in highly structured and multifaceted deals involving bespoke structures.

Ms. Kelban’s practice includes:

■ Asset and entity-level acquisitions and dispositions in respect of real estate based operating businesses

■ Single asset and multiple property portfolio financings for a range of property types and performing and non-performing loan assets

■ Mezzanine financings, preferred equity structures, equity investments, joint ventures, and equity recapitalizations

■ Workouts, restructurings, and distressed and performing loan sales

■ Foreign investors with respect to all types of in-bound US acquisitions, joint ventures, and financings

A collaborative and creative problem solver, Ms. Kelban works closely with clients to understand their key business needs.

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Qualified since 2001.