Biography
Cynthia Gu is an associate in the Global M&A Practice Group and a member of the Real Estate Industry Group. She is based in the Chicago office. Cynthia focuses her practice on real estate acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financings and leases.
Experience
Borrower-side financing in connection with $641,200,000 of mortgage and mezzanine loans secured by industrial properties in Manassas, Virginia.
The $111,100,000 acquisition, joint venture, and financing of a portfolio of industrial properties located in Wayne County, Michigan.
Borrower-side financing in connection with a $28,800,000 senior loan secured by an industrial/warehouse property located in Sacramento, California.
Served as outside real estate counsel to Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), the world's largest construction-equipment manufacturer, in connection with the real estate matters related to its equity investments in strategic targets.
Lender-side financing on behalf of a real estate income fund in connection with a $133,900,000 senior loan secured by a student housing property located in Athens, Georgia.
Lender-side financing on behalf of a real estate income fund in connection with a $92,500,000 senior loan secured by a multifamily apartment property in Seattle, Washington.
Issuance of $420,000,000 secured by mortgages on 65 office properties, in connection with a post-bankruptcy exit financing on behalf of an office real estate investment trust.
Divestment of hotel properties located in Kentucky, Maryland and Ohio, and office properties located in Texas and Illinois.