Gregory M. Carpenter

Partner

Real Estate Finance; Loan Restructuring & Workouts

O: (949) 593-9633

F: (617) 692-3443

About Gregory

Greg is a co-managing partner of the firm’s Newport Beach office. Greg represents institutional lenders in structuring, negotiating, and documenting secured and unsecured loan transactions throughout the country. Greg’s practice focuses on real estate financing transactions, including unsecured or equity-secured REIT facilities, acquisition and development loans, construction loans, bridge loans, mezzanine loans, participating/contingent interest loans, multiproperty revolving credit facilities, working capital lines of credit, and syndications, participations and other intercreditor transactions. Greg’s work is concentrated in financing a wide variety of real estate assets, including office and industrial buildings, retail centers, golf courses, sports facilities, hotels, residential developments, affordable housing and redevelopment projects, and residential and commercial condominium projects. Greg also has extensive experience assisting lenders in restructuring distressed loans, workouts, foreclosures, and other related matters.

Representative Matters

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  • Represented a national bank as administrative agent and lead lender in concurrent foreclosure on nine office buildings in four states valued in excess of $250 million
  • Represented a financial institution as administrative agent and lead lender in a $408 million syndicated loan secured by portfolio of industrial properties located in four Western states
  • Represented a national bank in the workout and restructure of four distressed loans aggregating more than $200 million
  • Represented a financial institution as administrative agent and lead lender in connection with a $120 million term loan secured by a Class A office campus located in Irvine, California
  • Represented a national bank as administrative agent and lead lender in a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure of office property securing $62 million term loan
  • Represented a national bank as administrative agent and lead lender in a $250 million syndicated revolving credit facility secured by over 25 residential development projects
  • 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
  • Represented an agent bank in the documentation of a $600 million revolving credit facility and a $250 million term loan provided to a public homebuilder
  • 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 national bank as administrative agent and lead lender in connection with a $350 million credit facility provided to a real estate investment trust
  • Represented a national bank as administrative agent and lead lender in connection with a $200 million credit facility to a real estate investment trust secured by equity interests in subsidiaries
  • Represented a national bank as agent and lead lender in connection with a $300 million construction loan for a mixed-use regional shopping center in Mountain View, California
  • Represented a national bank as administrative agent and lead lender in connection with a $444 million construction loan for two 8-story Class A office buildings in Sunnyvale, California

Admissions

State of California

Education

New York University, J.D., 1998
Northeast Louisiana University, B.B.A. 1994