Al Williams represents clients in complex commercial real estate transactions, with a particular focus on the acquisition, financing, development, and operation of U.S. real estate assets.

Al regularly represents financial institutions originating and investing in syndicated, securitized, construction, mortgage, and mezzanine loans secured directly or indirectly by large-scale commercial real estate projects across a wide range of asset classes, including office buildings, shopping centers, multifamily apartment buildings, condominium developments, industrial properties, hotels, and healthcare facilities.  

Al also represents real estate developers, owners, and operators in the acquisition, development, construction, management, leasing, and ultimate disposition of real estate assets across the United States. He represents domestic and foreign investors in the structuring and documentation of strategic joint ventures, and he represents lenders and borrowers in the origination of note-on-note facilities, subscription lines of credit, borrowing base facilities, unsecured lines of credit, and other similar credit facilities to private equity funds, debt funds, REITs, and other similar real estate institutions.

In the wake of the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Al has represented clients in a broad variety of restructurings and workouts and in the exercise of remedies in connection with troubled loans, as well as in bankruptcy proceedings involving distressed real estate investments.

Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Al worked for the Honorable Arthur D. Spatt of the Eastern District of New York and in the construction group of a law firm in New York.

Al received his J.D. cum laude from St. John’s University School of Law, where he currently serves on the Board of Directors.

Al has received recognition for excellence by Legal 500 in 2024. Al was also named to the 2023 Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch” list and is a Super Lawyers Rising Star for New York Real Estate for 2019-2022.