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Emerson K. Lovell

Counsel
Charlotte | 704.335.9046
Fax | 704.334.4706

Emerson Lovell represents clients in a broad range of complex commercial real estate transactions. He has experience with the acquisition, disposition, financing, leasing, and ground leasing of single assets and portfolios of multifamily, retail, mixed-use, industrial, and office properties.

Emerson has represented institutional lenders and borrowers in all stages of sophisticated financings secured by real estate portfolios, including origination of large commercial mortgage and mezzanine loans, single-site and multi-state transactions, refinancings, and modifications. He has also drafted and negotiated a wide array of real estate documents, such as purchase and sale agreements, loan agreements, pledge agreements, guarantees, security agreements, intercreditor agreements, commercial leases, and nondisclosure agreements. 

Emerson received his law degree from Howard University, where he graduated valedictorian. He received his bachelor's degree from Duke University. 

*Emerson is licensed to practice law only in New York. He is not licensed in North Carolina.

Representative Experience

  • Assisted a joint venture in the sale of a resort hotel in Arizona. The sale also included the land under thirty-three villa timeshares, land in different municipalities, and the resolution of lot boundary issues with a neighboring landowner.
  • Represented a client in the acquisition of controlling interests in four office campus properties in tertiary markets located in the western and southwestern U.S.
  • Assisted a joint venture in connection with a $43.5 million bridge refinancing of multifamily property in New York City. 
  • Represented a developer in a $120 million refinance of a 50-acre business park in New York that includes a last-mile distribution warehouse leased by Amazon.
  • Assisted a bank in connection with an $18 million repo facility with respect to a $34 million mortgage loan for the acquisition of a residential property in New York.
  • Represented a cultural and community center in a tax-exempt bond financing with respect to its campus in New York City.
  • Represented a New York City cooperative apartment building in connection with the sale of nearly 25,000 square feet of unused development rights from a neighboring property through a zoning lot merger, along with a related light and air easement. 
  • Represented a trust formed under the laws of the Republic of Korea as a lender in connection with a $75 million refinancing of a Manhattan office building with approximately 179,000 square feet of net rentable space. 

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