Paul Gilbert represents the nation's leading financial institutions and capital providers in a diverse range of real estate transactions. Paul's practice encompasses the origination, administration, and restructuring of real estate secured loans, with a focus on construction and build-to-suit financing, ground leasehold financing, syndications, and participations and mezzanine lending.
Paul's extensive experience spans a broad spectrum of asset classes, including undeveloped land, data centers, office buildings and corporate campuses, life science facilities, research and innovation campuses, hotels, resorts, shopping centers, multifamily and mixed-use projects, and other commercial properties.
Throughout his career, Paul has executed transactions totaling billions of dollars on behalf of various major financial institutions. Recent examples of deals on which Paul has led include representing: the administrative agent in connection with a $598.9 million senior secured construction loan for the development of a 42-story office tower in Bellevue, Washington; the administrative agent in connection with a $277 million syndicated secured construction loan for the development of two medical and life science buildings in Charlotte, North Carolina's medical innovation district; and the administrative agent and joint lead arrangers in connection with a $306 million construction loan for the development of an office/lab building in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood.
In addition to his origination practice, Paul has in-depth experience in distressed real estate matters, including exercise of remedies, debt restructurings, loan workouts, and commercial foreclosures and deeds-in-lieu.
Expérience
- Southwestern Law School (J.D. 2010 [two-year accelerated SCALE® program]); Temple University (B.A. in Political Science and Sociology cum laude 2008)
- California