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Ben Leffler is a member of Winstead's Real Estate Finance Practice Group. Ben's practice focuses on construction lending and bridge lending and includes other real estate financing, leases, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and related corporate and financial transactions.

General Experience

  • Representation of lenders in the origination, sale and acquisition of loans secured by hotel, office, retail and mixed-use developments
  • Representation of note-on-note lenders in the financing of mortgage and mezzanine loan transactions using debt-on-debt structures
  • Navigation of complex capital stacks, including negotiation of various forms of inter-lender agreements, including inter-creditor agreements, recognition agreements, co-lender agreements and funding guarantees

Representative Experience

  • Lender representation in the financing of several ground up residential and mixed-use condominium construction projects in Florida and Texas
  • Lender representation in the financing of mixed-use construction projects in numerous states
  • Lender representation in the financing of a multi-state portfolio of industrial construction projects
  • Lender representation in the financing of co-living and student housing assets in Florida, Maryland and Oregon

Prior New York Practice

  • Prior to joining Winstead, Ben practiced in the New York City office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP from 2010 to 2016

Clerkship

  • The Honorable Justice Robert Edmunds, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Education

  • Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law
    • J.D., 2008
    • cum laude
    • The Ohio State Law Journal, Associate Editor
    • Pro Bono Research Group, Research Fellow and Executive Board Member
  • Vassar College
    • B.A., Economics
  • London School of Economics
    • General Course

Admissions

  • Texas, 2016
  • New York, 2009

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