Overview
Aaron represents investors and developers in a broad range of complex commercial real estate transactions, with a focus on joint ventures, preferred equity investments, acquisitions and dispositions, development, leasing, and financing. He advises developers, private equity sponsors, family offices, and institutional investors on sophisticated deals, guiding transactions from initial structuring through closing.
Aaron has significant experience in the hospitality sector, including the acquisition, development, financing, and disposition of hotel assets. He regularly counsels clients on hotel management and franchise agreements and other hospitality-specific considerations, bringing a practical, commercially focused approach to each transaction.
With broad transactional experience and deep industry specific knowledge, Aaron provides strategic, solutions-oriented advice tailored to his client’s objectives.
Experience
Hospitality
- Advised hotel developer on a ground lease within a large retail development for the construction of a 140-room upper midscale hotel.
- Advised institutional investor on acquisition and financing of large portfolio of select-service hotels. *
- Advised developer on ground lease of pads to national restaurant company for new development of restaurants.
- Advised hotel developers on franchise agreement negotiation with leading global hotel franchisors.
- Advised real estate investment firm on the acquisition of a select-service hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
- Advised family office on acquisition of hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, and franchise agreement negotiation with leading global hotel franchisor.
- Advised national banking institution on senior debt financings of hotels, including a mixed-use development comprising hotel, condominium and retail, and a mixed-use development comprising hotel and student housing in downtown Boston. *
Joint Ventures, Preferred Equity, Mezzanine, and Senior Debt Financings
- Advised institutional investment firm on preferred equity investment in land acquisition and horizontal development for large-scale single-family home development near Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Advised institutional investment firm on joint venture in land acquisition and horizontal development for large-scale single-family home community.
- Advised private equity firm on preferred equity and joint venture investments in new construction multifamily projects.
- Advised student housing-focused developer on takeout financing for student housing facilities in Flagstaff, Arizona and Tallahassee, Florida.
- Advised national banking institution on financing of transitional housing development in Brooklyn, New York.
- Advised institutional investor on acquisition of first-loss position notes in commercial mortgage-backed securities securitization transactions.
- Advised multifamily-focused developer on syndication of equity and refinancing of senior debt.
Acquisition/Disposition
- Advised family offices and private investors on acquisitions and dispositions of various net-lease assets and related 1031 exchange transactions.
- Advised institutional investor in net-lease assets on sale leaseback transactions.
- Advised industrial developer on land acquisition, joint venture, and development of a data center in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Advised food supplier on disposition of a processing facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Advised global construction materials manufacturer on disposition of an industrial facility in Yuma, Arizona.
- Advised private investor on double-escrow purchase and sale of a distressed mixed-use project comprising hotel, parking garage, and office in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Advised public company on reorganization and disposition of portfolio of commercial office buildings. *
Leasing
- Advised office tenant on sublease in Class A office building in Chicago, Illinois
- Advised institutional investor in net-lease assets on sale leaseback transactions.
- Advised institutional landlord on leasing for office building in Denver, Colorado.
- Advised public company on leases for retail stores in connection with an equity acquisition of popular clothing retailer. *
- Advised manufacturing company on lease renewal negotiation for industrial facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
* Experience occurred prior to joining Dorsey.
