Finance Monthly Deal Maker Awards 2015 Edition

49 www.finance-monthly.com DEAL MAKER OF THE YEAR - USA HFZ Capital Group $1 billion financing Chosen for his involvement in the following transaction: Marc Shapiro is a partner in Mayer Brown’s New York office and a member of the Real Estate practice. He concentrates his practice on real estate and real estate finance and has more than 30 years of experience representing institutional lenders and private investors in sophisticated debt and equity transactions involving real estate. Marc has represented clients in over US$20 billion in financings and equity investments involving more than 750 properties in 50 US states, the Caribbean, Canada, Latin America, Europe and Southeast Asia, including more than 350 hotel properties. He has also represented lenders and borrowers in more than 750 loan transactions and 200 debt restructuring transactions including structured asset dispositions, and sales and acquisitions of single asset and portfolio debt in the secondary market. Marc counsels owners, operators and lenders in complex purchase, sale and leasing transactions involving office, shopping center, industrial, multifamily and hospitality properties. In 1993, Marc established the first securitized lending program to the hospitality industry through a US$2 billion commitment from a major Wall Street financial institution. He also has been actively involved in mezzanine lending since the earliest large mezzanine transactions of the 1990s. About Marc Shapiro HFZ Capital Group closed on the acquisition of a $870-million High Line development site after securing $1 billion in financing. The financing will cover the purchase price for 518 West 18th Street, as well as other pre-development expenses, according to sources. A group including JPMorgan, BlackRock and SL Green provided the money. HFZ reached an agreement to buy the site, located between 11th Avenue and the High Line, last year. The financing will now allow the developer to close on one of the most expensive development acquisitions ever recorded in New York, at $1,100 per square foot. “We have a unique opportunity at 76 Eleventh Avenue to develop an architecturally significant project with unparalleled views of the river and the skyline of New York,” Feldman said in a statement. Mayer Brown announced today that it represented HFZ Capital Group on $1 billion in debt and equity financing, which covered the $870 million purchase price of a development site in New York, as well as other pre-development expenses. The Mayer Brown teamwas led by Real Estate partner Bob Koen (New York) and included: Real Estate partners Marc Shapiro and Jill Block, counsel Jason Schlessel (all New York) and associates Sean Garahan (New York), Ahmad Nofal (Chicago) and Matthew Johnson (Houston); Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency counsel Richard Ziegler (Chicago); and Tax Transactions & Consulting partner Lee Morlock (Chicago). Transaction Repor t MARC SHAPIRO Par t ner a t Mayer Brown WINNER: www.mayerbrown.com