Ryan Duerring is counsel in the real estate investments & transactions group. Ryan advises mortgage REITs, private funds, and institutional investors on complex commercial real estate (CRE) equity and debt transactions, including joint ventures, preferred equity investments, CRE repurchase facilities, and note-on-note financings. Ryan’s experience also includes representing lenders in commercial transactions such as secured and unsecured financings, acquisition and leveraged financings, and asset-based financings.
During law school, Ryan served as president of the Real Estate Law Association and as a judicial extern for Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor of the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Ryan is the co-author of a Thomson Reuters Practical Law guide to commercial real estate law in the United States and has been named one of The Best Lawyers in America’s “Ones to Watch” for 2024 and 2025.
Experience
- 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.
- Ongoing representation of a major New York based investment fund in the creation of joint ventures with various regional operating partners and the subsequent acquisition and financing of multiple office, hotel and resort properties and distressed loan purchases in major markets throughout the Southeast, Southwest and West coast.
- Representation of one of the largest life sciences REITs in the United States, the largest private owner of life science office buildings in the U.S., in its $300 million acquisition of two adjacent office towers in the South End of Boston with the project planned to provide over 500 thousand square feet of mixed-use space focused on life-sciences technology, lab and R&D.
- Representation of the credit and distressed investment platform of one of the largest global private investment firms in the private purchase of a non-performing mortgage loan secured by a mixed-use commercial property from a syndicate of financial institutions and the ultimate acquisition of the property through a deed-in-lieu transaction.