Ropes & Gray Real Estate Practice Continues to Grow with Strategic Partner and Counsel Promotions

Ropes & Gray has promoted three partners and two counsel in its global real estate practice, demonstrating the firm’s investment in continuing to build its highly ranked real estate practice group and helping clients achieve their business objectives in a dynamic market.

The new partners and counsel advise clients on a multitude of real estate transactions including strategic M&A, joint ventures, recapitalizations, financings, and securitizations.

New promotions:

• Michael Allen (Partner, Boston)
  Michael represents debt funds, mortgage REITs, developers, hedge funds, family offices, and other institutional investors on a wide variety of commercial real estate debt and equity transactions, including repurchase facilities, note-on-note financings, and other back leverage arrangements, as well as joint ventures and co-investments.

• Dima Orendarets (Partner, London)
  Dima leads the firm's real estate finance practice in London, advising sponsors, debt funds, and institutional investors on development, senior, mezzanine, and back leverage financings. He also advises clients on complex structured finance transactions, private securitizations, and warehouse financings.

• Pete Scherer (Partner, Boston)
  Pete represents real estate private equity sponsors, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, and other institutional investors in a wide range of commercial real estate investments, including data center development and financings, preferred equity investments, operating company investments, complex joint venture arrangements, and financings.

• Mitesh Patel (Counsel, New York)
  Mitesh advises developers, owners, investment funds, lenders, and corporations on complex acquisitions, financings, joint ventures, preferred equity investments, landlord and tenant leasing, sale-leaseback transactions, and the real estate aspects of strategic corporate transactions.

• Matt Ruffe (Counsel, New York)
  Matt represents real estate private equity sponsors, funds, and other institutional investors in a wide variety of commercial real estate matters, including joint ventures and co-investments, financings, and recapitalizations.

With over 100 attorneys across the firm focused on real estate and real assets, Ropes & Gray serves as a trusted advisor to many of the world’s leading real estate investors, lenders, and sponsors.