Johann represents owners, developers and financial institutions in a range of real estate transactions, including dispositions, financing and real estate development.
Johann is an associate in the firm’s capital finance and real estate team. He has experience representing clients in real estate sales, development and financing transactions and counseling clients on compliance with federal and state regulations.
Relevant Experience
- Represented Hospitality Properties Trust with its $2.4 billion acquisition of a net lease service retail portfolio from Spirit MTA REIT. The portfolio consisted of 772 service and necessity-based, single-tenant, triple-net leased properties. The deal was structured as an acquisition of 100% of the equity in the five property-owner entities owning 769 of the properties with a simultaneous acquisition of the real estate for three remaining properties.
- Represented Service Properties Trust (formerly Hospitality Properties Trust) in connection with its $438 million disposition of 126 properties located in 26 states across the country. The properties were recently acquired by Service Properties Trust as part of their acquisition of a 772-property portfolio from Spirit MTA REIT.
- Represented an institutional lender with a $44 million mortgage loan to finance the purchase of an office building in California.
- Represented an institutional lender with the origination of an $87.5 million leasehold mortgage loan to a joint venture. The loan was secured by the joint venture’s leasehold interest in a shopping center in New York, which is leased by several national retail tenants.
- Represented a financial institution with a $110 million mortgage loan to finance the purchase of an office building in midtown Manhattan.
- Represented an institutional lender with the origination of a mortgage loan secured by the borrower’s leasehold interest in a portion of an industrial complex in New York.
- Represented a real estate investor with a $105.5 million upsizing of its existing loan secured by an office building located in midtown Manhattan.
- Represented a lender in the workout of a $32.8 million combined mortgage and mezzanine financing secured by a single tenant office building in Texas, which had matured without repayment or the real prospect of imminent refinancing.
- Represented Savanna in the purchase of 521 Fifth Avenue, a 39-story office tower in Midtown Manhattan, one block from Grand Central Terminal.
- Represented a financial institution with a $98 million mortgage loan secured by a 512 unit apartment complex in Washington.