Michael Weinberger’s practice focuses on real estate law, with a particular focus on real estate finance, including mortgage, mezzanine, and construction loan originations, restructurings, syndications, and secondary market transactions.

He frequently represents major institutional lenders and borrowers in complex transactions involving hotels, shopping centers, office buildings, multifamily properties, industrial properties, casinos, condominiums, and other property types.

Michael joined the firm in 1992 and became a partner in 2000.

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Notable Experiences

  • A consortium of lenders, led by Goldman Sachs, in a $975 million mortgage loan to affiliates of Blackstone Property Associates and Paramount Group, secured by One Market Plaza in San Francisco.

  • Goldman Sachs in the financing of Blackstone’s multibillion dollar acquisition of Equity Office Properties, one of the largest real estate transactions in history.

  • Hospitality Investors Trust, as borrower, in its simultaneous $1.04 billion portfolio refinancing, secured by 120 hotel properties, and a $285 million loan commitment.

  • A consortium of lenders in a $1.02 billion mortgage loan to affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Partners VII, secured by the Willis Tower in Chicago, still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower.

  • The lender in the financing of New York City landmark Rockefeller Center.

  • The syndicate of lenders in the $675 million refinancing of Independence Plaza in New York City.

  • The lender in the $1.05 billion refinancing of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.

  • The syndicate of lenders in the mortgage and mezzanine financing of Blackstone’s multibillion dollar acquisition of Strategic Hotels & Resorts.

  • A major real estate debt fund, as lender, in numerous mezzanine and construction financings, including construction financings for major retail and mixed-use developments and condominium conversions.

  • A Mexican bank, as lender, in numerous bridge and construction loans, financing luxury multifamily, hotel, and mixed-use projects.

  • A private equity fund, both as borrower and lender, in financings involving high-end resorts and recreation facilities.

  • The syndicate of lenders in the mortgage and mezzanine financing of GIC and Global Logistic Properties’ multibillion dollar acquisition of IndCor Properties.

  • A major investment bank, as lender, in the record setting mortgage and mezzanine financing of a multifamily, retail, and mixed-use portfolio in San Francisco.

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