LOS ANGELES—Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has hired 19-year industry veteran Loryn Dunn Arkow as a partner in its national real estate practice group. Dunn Arkow's practice involves acquisition, disposition and development transactions, joint ventures, lending and other finance transactions and recapitalizations and workouts. She will be based in the firm's Los Angeles office.

“Stroock's nationally recognized real estate practice dovetails with the emphasis in my practice on real estate investment transactions involving joint ventures and other financial and ownership structuring,” Dunn Arkow tells GlobeSt.com.
My goal is to provide my clients with the highest level of legal expertise and industry knowledge, and Stroock is an ideal platform for achieving those goals.  I was impressed with the high caliber of attorneys at Stroock who have a diversified range of real estate expertise as well as expertise in tax, ERISA, fund formation and management, and other specialties that complement each other in our client representations.”

Dunn Arkow formerly served as a partner at law firm Kelley Drye & Warren. In her lofty career, she has represented she large public pension funds, pension fund advisors, private equity funds and other investors, lenders, developers and sponsors across property types and sectors. She will bring her seasoned experience to Stroock to provide clients with the best possible expertise. “My focus, first and foremost, is to provide excellent counsel and service to our clients, both those that I have had the privilege to work with in my career as well as the long-time clients of the firm,” she says. “I am also very focused, together with my colleagues, in expanding our relationships both nationally and on the West Coast. We have a great deal of synergies that will enable us to grow the business.”

She holds a masters in International Economics and Japan Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and earned her law degree from Stanford Law School. She is a member of several real estate groups, including the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Stanford Real Estate Council.

Stroock is known for working on high-profile legal cases, including advising a group of junior and senior creditors that is blocking Caesars Entertainment's plan to put its main operating unit into voluntary bankruptcy and restructure it as a REIT. The unnamed group agreed not to support or approve of the Dec. 31, 2014 amended and restated restructuring support and forbearance agreement unless it was approved by a supermajority of their group.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.