Christopher L. Hartmann, P.C.

Joint Ventures

• Represented a sovereign wealth fund in its acquisition of a 44.5% limited partnership interest in a programmatic joint venture that currently owns and operates seven multifamily assets located throughout the U.S. with a gross asset value of approximately $692 million and that will acquire other 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 on the formation of a $233 million programmatic joint venture with a U.S. sponsor to acquire active adult multifamily assets located throughout the U.S.
• 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 sponsor in connection with its joint venture acquisition and financing of 50 triple net leased industrial assets located throughout the U.S. having a gross asset value of approximately $250 million, together with the formation of a programmatic joint venture to acquire triple net lease industrial assets located throughout the U.S.

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 sponsor in its joint venture purchase of a portfolio of 9 multifamily assets located throughout the U.S. having a gross asset value of approximately $480 million.

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.
• Represented a private equity sponsor in connection with its single family residential credit facilities having an aggregate principal amount of $3.3 billion.

Sales

• Represented a U.S. private equity fund in connection with its sale of 284 multifamily assets located throughout the U.S. in 130 transactions and for an aggregate gross purchase price of approximately $15.15 billion.
• Represented a private U.S. private equity fund sponsor in connection with its $1.118 billion sale of a portfolio of 12 multifamily assets located in Florida.
• 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 joint venture among a Canadian pension fund, a sovereign wealth fund and a U.S. private equity sponsor in its $475 million sale of REIT shares in a portfolio of 24 industrial assets located throughout the U.S.
• Represented a joint venture among a Canadian pension fund, a sovereign wealth fund and a U.S. private equity sponsor in its $1.655 billion sale of REIT shares in a portfolio of 65 industrial assets located throughout the United States.
• Represented a real estate private equity investment company in connection with its $528 (CAD) million sale of itself to a Canadian real estate private equity investment company.

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