Christopher L. Hartmann, P.C.

Joint Ventures

• Represented a sovereign wealth fund in connection with the formation of a $555 million programmatic joint venture with a U.S. sponsor and a Canadian pension plan to acquire multifamily assets located throughout the U.S.
• Represented a sovereign wealth fund in connection with its joint venture and construction loan financing for the $400 million development of a multifamily apartment complex located in Washington, D.C.
• Represented a sovereign wealth fund in connection with its joint venture and construction loan financing for the $280 million development of a mixed use office building located in Washington, D.C.
• Represented a sovereign wealth fund in connection with the formation of a $260 million programmatic joint venture with a U.S. sponsor and another sovereign wealth fund to acquire retail assets in New York City.
• Represented a sovereign wealth fund in connection with the formation of a $255 million programmatic joint venture with a U.S. sponsor to acquire active adult multifamily assets located throughout the U.S.
• Represented a U.S. private equity fund in connection with its $174 million joint venture to acquire two Class-A office buildings in El Segundo, California.

Acquisitions

• Represented a sovereign wealth fund in connection with its acquisition of an equity interest in a private REIT platform that owned a portfolio of manufactured housing facilities having a value of approximately $2.05 billion.
• Represented an Australian superannuation fund in connection with its acquisition of a 49% interest in a portfolio of eight office buildings located in Washington, D.C., and Bethesda, Maryland and having a value in excess of $1.3 billion.
• Represented a U.S. private equity fund in connection with its $540 million acquisition of a hotel located in Times Square, New York.
• Represented a U.S. private equity fund in connection with its $487.5 million joint venture acquisition of (and its $400 million acquisition financing for) a 3.1 million square foot flex and office space portfolio located in New York and Connecticut.
• Represented a U.S. real estate investment firm in connection with its $340 million acquisition of the Standard Highline Hotel in New York, New York.
• Represented a U.S. private equity fund in connection with its $175 million joint venture acquisition and financing of 14 acres of developable land located in the Bronx, New York.

Financings

• Represented a publicly-traded department store company in connection with its $1.3 billion bond offering secured by 48 of its real estate assets.
• Represented a U.S. developer in connection with its $1.24 billion construction financing for the development of a $2+ billion, mixed-used five-acre development on New York’s Upper West Side.
• Represented a U.S. private equity fund in connection with its $875 million construction financing for the development of a $1.5 billion multiphase, mixed-use (office, retail and residential) project in Boston, Massachusetts
• Represented a U.S. real estate investment firm in connection with its $730 million CMBS first mortgage and mezzanine financing secured by 30 hotels located throughout the U.S.
• Represented a U.S. private equity fund in connection with its $600 million CMBS first mortgage financing secured by a portfolio of showroom properties located in North Carolina and Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Represented a foreign real estate investment firm in connection with its $503 million first mortgage financing for the St. Regis Bal Harbour, Miami, Florida, the St. Regis D.C., Washington, D.C., and the Manhattan Times Square, New York, New York.
• Represented Elad Canada in connection with its $403.4 million first mortgage and mezzanine financing (and subsequent $434 million first mortgage and mezzanine refinancing) of a portfolio of 46 industrial and suburban office properties located in the U.S. that Elad Canada acquired as part of its take private acquisition of Agellan Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust.
• Represented a U.S. developer in connection with its $116.1 million construction financing for the development of a 590-unit multifamily apartment complex in Houston, Texas

Sales

• Represented a U.S. private equity fund in connection with its sale of 148 multifamily assets located throughout the U.S. in 96 transactions and for an aggregate gross purchase price of approximately $6.4 billion.
• Represented a U.S. private equity fund in connection with its $1.14 billion sale of 26 multifamily assets located throughout the U.S.
• Represented a sovereign wealth fund in connection with its $900 million sale of an office building located in New York, New York.
• Represented a U.S. private equity fund in connection with its $835 million sale of 16 multifamily assets located throughout the U.S.
• Represented a Canadian real estate investment firm in connection with its buy-out of its three joint venture partners, unwind of a historic tax credit structure and ultimate $267 million sale of the Sullivan Center in Chicago.
• Represented a sovereign wealth fund in connection with its $209 million sale of a mixed-use (office and retail) property located in Washington, D.C.

University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business — Teaching Assistant / Accounting (August 2003–May 2006)