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Real Estate Financing & Investment

Overview

We help real estate investors and lenders structure and apply debt and equity in transactions that seek to meet deadlines, minimize risk, and fulfill expectations. We combine and leverage various public and private financing sources to optimize financing transactions, including tax increment, tax credit, tax abatement, and federal, state, and local financing tools. We represent lenders and borrowers in permanent loans, bridge loans, and construction loans, participating and shared appreciation mortgages, and mezzanine financing. Our financing transactions include office, retail, mixed-use, hospitality, industrial, institutional, tenant-in-common, and multifamily projects. We also have experience in loans involving specialty properties, including corporate headquarters, race tracks, casinos, hospitals, nursing homes, power plants, logistics facilities, alternative energy facilities, wind power facilities, hydroelectric dams, churches, and schools. A key focus of our lending work is our national practice representing life insurance companies and banks in complex, multistate mortgage loan transactions. We help promote smooth transactions, and for this reason, many high-profile lenders choose to work with us again and again.

We also advise on matters affecting investors, including joint ventures, economic incentives, tax credits, 1031 exchanges, environmental and regulatory matters, and REIT issues.

Insights & Events

Latest

Press Release March 2026

Faegre Drinker Welcomes Finance Partner Eleni Zodiates to London, Further Strengthening Its UK Finance & Restructuring Team

3 min read
Updates March 2026

Property Tax Exposure in the Commercial Real Estate Distress Cycle

Why Property Tax Belongs on Every Lender’s REO Checklist
8 min read
Speaking Engagement Recap January 23, 2026

Opportunity Zone 2.1: Will the newly amended statute make the program more beneficial to redevelopment?

2026 Redevelopment Law Institute
1 min read
News October 2025

Faegre Drinker Real Estate Team Honored at 2025 Smart Growth Awards

1 min read
Updates August 2025

Presidential Order Instructs Regulators to Help Facilitate 401(k) Access to Alternative Asset Investments, Including Private Equity and Private Credit

Builds on Existing Regulatory Momentum; Collective Trusts and Closed-End Funds Expected to Play Key Roles in Facilitating Access for Plan Investors
16 min read
Updates August 2025

Title Insurance Considerations for Severance of Mineral Rights

Rigorous Due Diligence Is Key
4 min read
Updates July 2025

New Law Extends and Amends Qualified Opportunity Zone Tax Incentives

Also New Is the Concept of a Qualified Rural Opportunity Fund
6 min read
Updates June 2024

If You Own Real Property in Indiana — Frequently Asked Questions

6 min read
Speaking Engagement Recap October 20, 2022

2022 InterFace Seniors Housing Midwest Conference - Chicago, IL

1 min read
Recorded Webinar November 05, 2020

2020 Construction Law Summit - Webinar

1 min read
Insights
Updates March 2026

Property Tax Exposure in the Commercial Real Estate Distress Cycle

Why Property Tax Belongs on Every Lender’s REO Checklist
8 min read
Updates August 2025

Presidential Order Instructs Regulators to Help Facilitate 401(k) Access to Alternative Asset Investments, Including Private Equity and Private Credit

Builds on Existing Regulatory Momentum; Collective Trusts and Closed-End Funds Expected to Play Key Roles in Facilitating Access for Plan Investors
16 min read
Updates August 2025

Title Insurance Considerations for Severance of Mineral Rights

Rigorous Due Diligence Is Key
4 min read
Updates July 2025

New Law Extends and Amends Qualified Opportunity Zone Tax Incentives

Also New Is the Concept of a Qualified Rural Opportunity Fund
6 min read
Updates June 2024

If You Own Real Property in Indiana — Frequently Asked Questions

6 min read
Media Mentions March 2024

Secured Finance Network Profiles Breia Schleuss in ‘Women in Secured Finance’ Issue

2 min read
Published Articles June 2023

NYC’s Accelerator Program: PACE May Quicken in the City

1 min read
Updates March 2023

Marion County, Indiana, Set to Increase Many 2022 Property Tax Assessments 10% or More

4 min read
Updates January 2023

FinCEN Warns of Potential Sanction Evasion by Russian Entities Involved in U.S. Commercial Property Investments

3 min read
Published Articles June 2022

An Introduction to NYC’s Accelerator PACE Financing Program

1 min read

Meet The Team

Meet The Full Real Estate Financing & Investment Team