Christopher Price is a partner in the firm’s nationally recognized Real Estate, REITs & Real Estate Capital Markets Group. He serves as chair of the firmwide Real Estate Finance Practice and is active in the leadership of the New York Real Estate Capital Markets Practice.
Mr. Price practices in all areas of real estate investment management and real estate finance law, representing domestic and foreign investors, fund sponsors, institutional investment advisors and investment banks.
WORK FOR CLIENTS
Mr. Price represents institutional investors, real estate investment managers and public and private companies in all of their real estate industry needs, including purchases and sales, financings, recapitalizations, restructurings, debt acquisitions, joint ventures and entity-level investments.
Recently completed transactions include representation of:
- A real estate investment fund in connection with the acquisition of a controlling interest in a publicly traded real estate investment trust.
- A real estate investment fund in connection with the acquisition of a defaulted first mortgage loan and acquisition of New York City office buildings through a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure.
- A real estate investment fund in connection with the acquisition and resolution of real estate mezzanine debt investments.
- A real estate debt fund in the restructuring of complex, multi-lender mortgage and mezzanine loans secured by a large retail and entertainment project in New Jersey.
- A real estate owner-operator in the equity and debt recapitalization of a portfolio of mixed-used properties in New York City.
- An opportunity fund in an investment program with an operating partner to acquire and operate office buildings in major metropolitan markets.
- A real estate investment fund in a programmatic joint venture with a multi-family operator to acquire and reposition apartments in the western United States.
MEDIA
Mr. Price co-authored “Purchasing Distressed Hotel Debt: Considerations for “Loan to Own” Investors,” which appeared in HotelNewsNow.com (December 15, 2011), “Lender Defaults: The New Reality Facing Real Estate Debt Investors,” which appeared in The Journal of Structured Finance (Spring 2009) and “Meet the New Boss: Management Takeovers in Real Estate Joint Ventures,” which appeared in RESource (Fall 2009).
While attending law school, he served as Managing Editor of the Tulane Law Review.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Price is admitted to practice in New York.