Doug Heitner represents clients in a full range of complex debt and equity real estate transactions.
Doug leverages his extensive experience, both as an external legal advisor and in-house, and sophisticated understanding of the real estate market to advise real estate private equity sponsors, public and private real estate investment trusts (REITs), and privately held real estate operating companies on a wide range of real estate transactions, including:
- Joint ventures and recapitalizations
- Financings throughout the capital structure, including mortgage and mezzanine loans as well as preferred equity joint venture structures
- Developments
- Public and private projects
- Portfolio and single-asset purchases and sales
- Real estate M&A
Before joining the firm, Doug served as the Chief Legal Officer at Safehold (formerly iStar), where his complex real estate work involved asset-based transactions, as well as public capital markets and real estate M&A.