Structuring Credit Tenant Lease Financing: Balancing Interests of Developers, Lenders, Tenants, and Investors

Mr. LaSota is Co-Chair of the Chicago Corporate Practice. He focuses his practice on the representation of institutional investors in advising, structuring, and documenting debt transactions, with particular focus on credit tenant loan real estate transactions (CTLs) and project and infrastructure finance, including public-private partnerships. Mr. LaSota has wide-ranging industry experience including federal and state government, public and private universities, hospitals, resorts, hotels, medical office buildings, retail outlets, parking and transportation facilities, data centers, and oil and gas facilities. A considerable amount of his practice involves reviewing and negotiating lenders’ interests in leases, residual-value guaranties, construction contracts, concession agreements, and other project-related agreements, and negotiating and documenting financing arrangements. Mr. LaSota is experienced with the rules and customs of the NAIC guidelines which govern the treatment of securities (including CTLs) as “Schedule D” bond transactions for certain institutional investors, and is frequently consulted by institutional investors and placement agents for structuring advice and guidance on such matters.

Mr. Robson focuses his practice on corporate, project and structured finance transactions, including public-private partnerships and lease finance transactions. His representation of insurance companies, finance companies, and institutional investors focuses on private placements of debt, both secured and unsecured; complex project and facility financings; real estate transactions; equipment financings; and credit tenant loans. A considerable amount of Mr. Robson’s practice involves energy and infrastructure financings and includes advising, structuring and documenting debt offerings and financing arrangements; negotiating lenders’ interests in project-related agreements; and structuring transactions to attain requisite credit ratings on debt securities from the rating agencies.

Mr.Persky joined CGA in 2024 as a Managing Director involved in the origination, structuring and distribution of CTL transactions. Prior to joining CGA, he spent nearly 29 years at Nuveen and TIAA’s Private Placements group where he was a Managing Director serving as Portfolio Manager and Head of CTL Originations. Mr. Persky also worked in commercial banking at Citibank and European American Bank.