Tiffany Taubman advises clients on complex commercial real estate transactions around the world across a full spectrum of asset classes.

Ms. Taubman draws on extensive substantive knowledge and experience to help real estate investment trusts (REITs), financial institutions, private equity funds, hotel brands, family offices, and management companies navigate:

  • Single-asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions
  • Financing, including mortgage and mezzanine financings
  • Management agreements, franchise agreements, and related matters
  • Joint ventures

She takes a pragmatic approach to clients’ most sophisticated real estate transactions. Ms. Taubman unlocks the resources of Latham’s robust global platform and collaborates with clients to advance their commercial goals.

Ms. Taubman maintains an active pro bono practice, including providing real estate work for a nonprofit relating to agreements for use of space and in property transfers to help shelters gain more anonymity. Before law school, Ms. Taubman served as an AmeriCorps volunteer for a Los Angeles nonprofit.

Ms. Taubman’s recent experience includes advising:

Acquisitions and Dispositions

  • Sunstone Hotel Investors on acquiring the Montage Healdsburg, a hotel in Sonoma, California
  • MBK Real Estate on acquiring and financing a portfolio of nine senior housing facilities
  • An international client on a joint venture acquisition and development of a property in Houston, Texas
  • A company on selling three hotels for US$1 billion

Financings

  • Deutsche Bank on:
    • Mortgage financing secured by the Four Seasons Hotel in Oahu, Hawaii, for renovation and conversion from a JW Marriott
    • A US$340 million financing of a New York retail property
    • A US$250 million term loan facility for Bayside Marketplace, an outdoor shopping mall in Miami, Florida
  • DigitalBridge Group on a US$95 million construction financing of a hotel the Gaslamp Hotel in San Diego, California
  • A company in connection with the financing of over 450 assets throughout the United States

Bar Qualification

  • California

Education

  • JD, Northwestern University School of Law, 2013
    magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
  • BA, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
    summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Practices