Pablo Clarke

Pablo Clarke is a partner in the Real Estate practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Century City office. Pablo advises clients on a full complement of real estate and finance transactions, including mortgage and mezzanine financing, preferred equity transactions, corporate REIT financing, acquisitions and dispositions, acquisition financing, joint ventures, and commercial leasing.

He helps private equity firms, investors, REITs, and financial institutions on matters across a variety of real estate asset classes, including office, industrial, raw land, retail, hospitality, single and multifamily developments, and medical.

For lenders – including investors, mortgage REITs, private equity firms, and financial institutions – investing and lending up and down the capital stack, he advises on mortgage lending (CMBS and non-CMBS), construction financing, revolving borrowing base loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity investments, and joint ventures.

Pablo advises REITs and financial institutions on the origination and ongoing management of corporate credit products such as secured and unsecured term and revolving credit facilities, private placement notes, acquisition financing, and property-level financing.

With developer and investor clients, Pablo negotiates and documents purchase and sale agreements, joint ventures, ground leases, and Easements (primarily for the construction, development, and repositioning of real property).

He brings a broad understanding of real estate investment drawn from his previous experience as general counsel for a real estate focused private equity firm as well as from serving as an attorney-advisor for the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development on the acquisition, construction, and repurposing of multifamily units in the affordable housing and healthcare industries.

University of California, Berkeley, MBA

University of Arizona, JD

Princeton University, BA