Impact Investment Funds: Legal Structure and Key Documents

Ms. Niver represents banks, insurance companies and debt funds in construction and permanent loans, debt restructurings and secondary market transactions, as well as working with market-rate and affordable housing developers and owners on financings, acquisitions and sales, joint venture arrangements, condominium regimes, and leases for all product types, including multifamily, retail, office and hotel, and frequently as part of complex mixed-use development and redevelopment and master planning projects nationwide. In addition to her broad background in CRE finance and development generally, Ms. Niver has had a career-long focus on affordable housing and community development, both as a real estate and commercial finance attorney, and formerly as an urban planner specializing in affordable housing finance and policy. She has extensive experience in community development lending, impact finance syndications and programmatic and policy issues related to affordable housing, and routinely provides legal advice to profit and nonprofit developers, financial institutions, investors, and community development entities engaged in all types of complex real estate development and financing transactions, specifically social impact investing and tax credit finance.

Mr. Schernecke advises direct lenders, mezzanine investment funds, and venture capital investors in a variety of debt and investment transactions with borrowers of all sizes, types, and structures. He also counsels private equity clients and corporate borrowers on domestic and cross-border acquisition financings, out-of-court restructurings and workouts, bankruptcy matters, ESG and impact investment financings, and real estate financings. Mr. Schernecke leads transactions spanning diverse industries, including financial services, real estate, retail, life sciences, health care, technology, food and beverage, hospitality, film and music entertainment, media, and telecommunications.