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Katie Hyland is an associate practicing in Ropes & Gray’s real estate investments & transactions group. She represents financial institutions, private equity clients, and investors in a wide variety of commercial real estate matters including complex acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures formed for real estate investments, financings, land use and zoning, and development.
Experience
- Represented several private equity funds and operating companies on single-asset and portfolio sale-leaseback and other net lease transactions both domestically and cross-border involving industrial, manufacturing, retail, office and healthcare assets.
- Represented a prominent real estate finance company in connection with its $1 billion collateralized loan obligation issuance, which financed pari passu participation interests in 31 of the company’s large balance of commercial real estate loans previously financed under the company’s repurchase facilities with 5 different counterparties. The total transaction value of the deal exceeded $2.8 billion.
- Representation of many leading publicly traded mortgage REITs and private real estate debt funds in negotiating and closing over $5 billion in master repurchase facilities, note-on-note facilities and secured warehouse facilities across from multiple major banks and insurance companies to finance commercial real estate loans secured by real estate in the United States.
- Represented a real estate fund sponsor in the contribution of timberlands real estate as seed assets into a new open-end real estate fund.
- Representing various nationally recognized private equity sponsors in their acquisition and disposition of portfolio companies, with deal sizes ranging from $10 million to $4 billion, in a wide variety of industries.
- Represented Advent International in connection with its majority investment in Aimbridge Hospitality and subsequent merger with Interstate Hotels & Resorts, which created a combined company managing a portfolio of more than 1,400 branded and independent hotels.