Partner

Real Estate Finance

Newport Beach

csu@riemerlaw.com

O: (949) 593-9645

F: (617) 692-3445

About Carol

Carol has over a decade of experience representing national financial institutions in structuring, negotiating, and documenting real estate secured transactions as well as advising and assisting lenders with respect to troubled loans. Her experience spans all types of assets including office, industrial, storage facilities, retail, residential, low-income housing, and hotels.

Carol’s primary focus includes construction lending, loan portfolios, lines of credit, syndicated loans, and secured and unsecured revolving facilities. Her experience also extends to the representation of financial institutions as the letter of credit provider, bond purchaser, bridge lender, permanent lender, and construction lender in tax-exempt bond financings of low-income housing projects.

Representative Matters

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  • Represented a national bank, as administrative agent and lead lender, in connection with a $95 million syndicated loan secured by multi-family properties located in California
  • Represented a national bank, as administrative agent, in connection with the modification and upsize of a $690 million revolver and term loan facility secured by more than 40 industrial properties in multiple jurisdictions across the U.S.
  • Represented a national bank, as administrative agent, in connection with a $550 million revolver and term loan facility secured by approximately 36 industrial properties in multiple jurisdictions across the U.S.
  • Represented a national bank as administrative agent, in connection with the amendment of a $750 million revolving credit facility, $200 million term loan facility, and related intercreditor arrangements, which among other things, secured the facilities with mortgages on close to 100 healthcare and life science properties across the country
  • Represented a national bank, as administrative agent, in connection with the amendment of $1.4 billion revolving and term credit facilities, which among other things, secured the facilities with mortgages on close to 100 travel centers and hotels across the country
  • Advisement of global systemically important bank (GSIB) with respect to enterprise-wide portfolios impacted by the LIBOR transition, including conducting portfolio-wide risk impact assessments, analyzing various consumer products, and developing litigation contingency plans
  • Represented two national banks in connection with a $320 million term loan secured by a multi-building office campus located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California
  • Represented a national bank as administrative agent and lead lender in connection with a $391.5 million syndicated loan secured by an industrial portfolio located in eight states
  • Advisement of two U.S.-based corporate trustees with respect to portfolios impacted by LIBOR transition and COFI cessation, including conducting portfolio-wide risk impact assessments, analyzing various consumer products, and developing litigation contingency plans
  • Represented a financial institution as administrative agent and lead lender in connection with a $255 million term loan secured by an office campus in Austin, Texas
  • Represented a financial institution, as administrative agent and lead lender, in a $250 million revolving credit facility secured by commercial real estate assets
  • Represented a construction lender in a $29 million facility to finance a medical center
  • Represented a letter of credit provider and bond purchaser in a $44 million facility to finance a tax-exempt bond financing of a 335-unit affordable housing apartment complex
  • Represented a national lender in a $61 million combined term, revolving, construction, and letter of credit facility in a workout restructuring and payoff

Admissions

State of California

Education

University of California, Davis, J.D., 2007
– Witkin Award, Environmental Law

University of California, Davis, M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2007

University of California, Irvine, B.S. in Environmental Engineering, cum laude, 2003
– Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society
– Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society