One of the most active real estate groups in Tokyo.
Morrison & Foerster offers a leading full service real estate team in Tokyo with both Japanese and US qualified lawyers. The
group represents lenders, borrowers, opportunity funds and other investors in a wide range of finance, joint venture, acquisition
and development transactions and is one of the few that has been active in the formation of, and offering of interests in,
J-REITs.
Representative Matters
- Represented an international opportunity fund in connection with the over ¥5 billion ($45.5 million) TMK restructuring and
refinancing of several commercial properties located in Japan.
- Represented a German open-ended property fund in connection with their current TMK investments in Japan.
- Represented an institutional lender in connection with a non-recourse loan extended to a Japanese residential developer and
secured by residential properties located in Japan.
- Represented a US-based investment bank in connection with a $325,000,000 credit facility extended to a global opportunity
fund and secured by multiple performing and non-performing assets located in Japan.
- Represented an institutional lender in connection with providing ¥4.7 billion ($42.7 million) in acquisition financing in
connection with the acquisition of 3 residential buildings located in Japan.
- Represented an institutional lender in connection with providing ¥7 billion ($63.6 million) in construction financing for
a Tokyo development.
- Represented a Japanese real estate investment company in the acquisition of a number of commercial properties located in central
Tokyo.
- Represented the real estate investment wing of a Japanese investment bank in a ¥17 billion ($154.5 million) refinancing of
a commercial office building located in Osaka.
- Represented a Japanese regional bank in connection with the transfer of its real estate assets to a newly established subsidiary
in the form of a contribution in kind.
