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Wendy D. Forrest is a partner in the firm’s Banking and Financial Services department. She concentrates her practice on commercial financing, acquisitions, sales, leasing, and real estate development, and routinely counsels lenders in connection with secured and unsecured financings throughout the United States. This includes fee and leasehold acquisitions, construction and project loans, loan syndications, participation, and asset-based lending. Wendy has significant experience structuring, documenting, negotiating, and closing syndicated and non-syndicated transactions secured by commercial office buildings, retail shopping centers, hotels, multi-family apartment buildings, and mixed-use projects.

Wendy also represents national tenants and large landlords in office, retail, industrial, and warehouse leasing transactions as well as public and private corporations and real estate developers in acquisitions and sales of hotels and retail, office, apartment, and mixed-use buildings.

Areas of Concentration:

  • Commercial syndicated and non-syndicated real estate and asset based financing
  • Commercial office building, shopping center and retail leasing
  • Acquisitions and sales of commercial real estate

Practice Areas

Industries

Admissions

  • New York

Education

  • J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 2000
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1997

Representative Experience

  • Represented commercial lender in $130 million syndicated transaction secured by 21 properties located in 15 different states.
  • Represented commercial United States lender and Canadian lender in $100 million asset-based loan.
  • Represented commercial lender in connection with asset-backed loans secured by notes and mortgages made by the borrower to a third party.
  • Represented commercial lender in connection with auto dealership and floor plan financings.
  • Represented public company in connection with large leasing transactions throughout the United States.

Professional and Community Activities

  • Member of Executive Committee, Light the Night Walk, Present