NEW YORK CITY—The law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough has joined the legal community here with the opening of an office at 415 Madison Ave. staffed with former corporate attorneys from financial services. JPMorgan Chase Bank executive director Steve Hantz comes onboard as a partner in Nelson Mullins' real estate capital markets group and will assist the 20-plus member team from his base here. Joining him is associate Gillian Deutch, who has previous real estate and corporate finance experience from other New York law firms.
“For the last several years, Nelson Mullins has evaluated potential candidates and groups of lawyers in New York City with the goal to open an office to support our corporate group's capital markets, private equity, public securities, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate practices,” says James Lehman, managing partner. “We look forward to growing our 15th office and enhancing our services to clients.”
Hantz has spent the past seven years in the commercial mortgage-backed securities loan-closing group on structuring and closing CMBS loans for multi-borrower securitizations and large loans for single borrower securitizations. He works with loan originators to structure loans and draft loan term sheets, working directly with borrowers and their counsel to negotiate and draft the term sheets. He currently manages loan closings and works on the securitization and sale of the loans. Before joining JPMorgan, he worked in a similar role at Bear Stearns.
Nelson Mullins' capital markets group works largely out of Nelson Mullins' Atlanta and Charlotte offices, and the group plans to expand its practice in those offices as well as the New York office.
The team represents international, national, regional, state, and community banks, insurance companies, mortgage brokers, and other institutional lenders, as well as master and special loan servicers, in a variety of matters. It works in conjunction with Nelson Mullins' business transaction, tax, ERISA, business reorganization, and securitizations lawyers.
In addition to New York, Nelson Mullins has offices in Washington, DC, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia.
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