Commercial Real Estate Distressed Property Strategies

Mark Levinson of GreenbergTraurig

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We interviewed Mr. Levinson at the 2011 GreenPearl Distressed Real Estate Event held in Los Angeles. For more event information go to www.GreenPearlEvents.com.

William Mark Levinson
Shareholder

levinsonm@gtlaw.com
Direct: 310.586.3888
Direct Fax: 310.586.0588
Los Angeles
2450 Colorado Avenue
Suite 400E
Santa Monica, CA 90404
T 310.586.7700
F 310.586.7800

Mark Levinson has substantial experience in a broad range of corporate, securities, real estate and finance matters including an emphasis in municipal finance.

Mr. Levinson routinely structures, negotiates and documents the public and private placement of a range of securities offerings; loan restructurings; defaulted bond workouts on behalf of issuers, indenture trustees and bondholders; venture capital and private equity investments.

Mr. Levinson also provides guidance to businesses on Securities Exchange Act reporting obligations and general corporate and contract matters.

Mr. Levinson has experience in the municipal finance industry and routinely serves as bond and underwriter’s counsel, credit and liquidity provider’s counsel, and indenture trustee’s counsel.

He typically is engaged by financial institutions, municipalities, redevelopment agencies, and other governmental authorities and educational institutions to assist in a range of infrastructure, affordable housing, and Mello-Roos and Marks Roos financings utilizing bond or certificate of participation structures, aggregating billions of dollars in securities.

Mr. Levinson has handled all types of real estate transactions, representing syndicators, developers and owners in their projects including shopping centers, office buildings, warehouse distribution facilities and residential property.

He has particular experience representing syndication companies, lenders and others in a range of acquisitions, dispositions and private offerings and sale-leaseback arrangements.

Areas of Concentration

General Corporate
Securities
Financing transactions and secured lending
Private Equity Investments
Mergers and Acquisitions
Real Estate, leasing and land use
Acquisitions and dispositions of real estate
Mezzanine, bridge and permanent financings
Distressed Bond Workouts

Significant Representations

Served as issuers, underwriters and trustees counsel in numerous public offerings over a broad range of projects.
Represented numerous borrowers and financial institutions in secured and unsecured financings.
Represented Tenant In Common sponsors in acquisition of various commercial real estate projects pursuant to which the sponsor identified and acquired real estate projects throughout the United States, negotiated the complex loans acquisition financing and structured and administered the acquisition by tenants in common of the real estate.
Represented indenture trustees in numerous defaulted debt securities relating to companies in a wide range of industries.
Represented a financial institution providing credit enhancement to major airport and multi-family housing projects.
Represented Financial Advisors in connection with rendering fairness opinions.

Professional & Community Involvement

Second Vice President on Executive Board, New West Symphony
Chairman’s Circle, Los Angeles Business Council
Cabinet Member, Real Estate and Construction Division of the Jewish Federation, 2010
Board Member, Spotlight the Arts
Board of Governors, Cedars Sinai Hospital
Former Trustee, Temple Judea
Member, Association for Corporate Growth
Member, Brandeis University President’s California Council
Member, Business Law, Real Property and Probate & Trust Law Sections of the American Bar Association
Member, Los Angeles Business Counsel
Member, Los Angeles Business Forum
Member, Los Angeles Venture Association
Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
Member, American Bar Association

GreenbergTraurig

Experience

GT’s growth to 1800 lawyers and more than 30 locations is an example of the firm’s instincts for leveraging a changing marketplace. The need for lawyers to help clients navigate change continues to escalate. For GT, merging with other law firms to be in new markets overnight is not the way to respond to the market need. Preserving the firm’s “built for change” culture is. GT leaders travel across the country handpicking lawyers with the talents to guide clients through the very moments their businesses and markets are changing most. It is this rare combination of talents around which we relentlessly hire at GT – legal, business and leadership skills. That’s why we refer to GT lawyers as “3-D lawyers.”

Culture

Walk through the hallways at GT and ask a lawyer what’s different about the firm. No matter in which office, state or time zone, a GT lawyer will no doubt answer in one word – culture. Culture is shorthand for thinking differently about what makes lawyers happy at a law firm and in turn what gets results for clients. GT’s culture places the power to get results in the individual, embracing diversity, lawyers’ multidimensional skills and commitment to community. It also means shunning such things as bureaucracy and internal competition and insisting upon an unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. Indeed, the firm is run to eliminate the market forces that can distract organizations from their number one purpose: getting the best results possible for clients and keeping talent thrilled to be here.

GreenbergTraurig http://www.gtlaw.com

Articles and Press Releases

Putting Clients and Culture First is Always Good Business
New York Law Journal, October 2010

Greenberg Traurig Achieves 100 Percent Rating on 2011 Corporate Equality Index

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C R E P I G
Commercial Real Estate Professional Investors Group

This stands for the Commercial Real Estate Professional Investors Group. It was started on LinkedIn and has grown to over 2100 users since March. Here is the link to Join: www.linkedin.com/e/gis/79765

CREPIG was set up to allow commercial real estate professional investors, lendors, consultants, developers, financial institutions and others network together in order to give or find funding and expertise to close and complete deals. CREPIG is interested in the funding of Socially Responsible, Concious and Green projects and is especially interested in the sustainabilty of social business entities.

My group was growing very fast and although LinkedIn was adding news and Discussions to the groups it wasn’t enough. I needed to get everyone to a place where they could serve and get served. A place where you could blog, have discussions, tie groups together, do more with your own page and much more. I love LinkedIn, but it is adding very slowly and most of the professionals I speak to want to get going.

Using Ning

I started a Ning site for the group and it is also growing very fast. It’s a pretty amazing site.

Come Join the PIG

The acronym of CREPIG has given me some grief, but I have decided to embrace it by calling the site The PIG. Yes you too can join the PIG…. I have added RSS news, videos, pictures, forums and plenty of great groups. If you are in finance, commercial real estate or any of a number of occupations and companies that deal with real estate and funding of projects big and small; you are allowed to promote your product, service or project in many different ways.

Come check out the new site at www.CREPIG.com.