Rori H. Malech

Rori H. Malech concentrates her practice in the area of commercial real estate development and finance, representing local and national developers, real estate investment trusts, institutional equity investors, institutional and non-institutional lenders and hotel operators.  Ms. Malech focuses on a wide range of transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financings (for borrowers and lenders), workouts and equity and debt participations involving a variety of assets types throughout the United States, including mixed-use development, office, retail, hotel, condominium, multi-family and residential and commercial land. More recently, she has been extensively involved in restructuring joint ventures and investments for her developer clients as well as hotel acquisitions, loan workouts, restructurings and enforcement proceedings (including foreclosures) on behalf of commercial lenders.  She is a member of the firm’s Women’s Leadership Forum and Sustainability and Climate Change Practice.

Representative transactions include:

• Represented an operator in the negotiation of a joint venture agreement for the acquisition and development of a to-be-constructed 128-room Mondrian hotel in the Old City of Istanbul, Turkey.
• Represented a developer in the negotiation of a purchase and sale agreement for the acquisition of a newly constructed 122-room Holiday Inn in New York City (Midtown).
• Represented a developer in the negotiation of a purchase and sale agreement for the acquisition of a newly constructed 185-room Hyatt Place in New York City (Midtown).
• Represented a joint venture in the negotiation of a $350 million loan secured by the St. Regis in Laguna Beach, California.
• Represented a joint venture in the negotiation of a $201 million loan secured by the Anaheim Hilton in Anaheim, California, and negotiated the joint venture agreement and related documents on behalf of the developer.
• Represented equity in the refinance of a $250 million loan secured by the historic and award-winning Washington Marriott Wardman Park hotel.
• Represented a joint venture in the acquisition and $130 million financing of a 35-acre mixed-use development project (including hotel and branded residences as well as commercial, retail and residential) in Huntington Beach, California, and negotiated the joint venture agreement and related documents on behalf of the developer.
• Represented equity in the acquisition of a 20-acre mixed-used development project (including retail, restaurant, hotel, entertainment, commercial, residential, education and civic space) in Miami, and negotiated the joint venture agreement and related documents on behalf of equity.
• Represented a developer in the acquisition and finance of the former Las Vegas City Hall and adjacent future development land from the City of Las Vegas to be developed and leased to Zappos.com.
• Represented a developer in the $46 million refinance of a GSA leased office building in Washington, D.C.
• Represented a developer in the restructure of a $200 million real estate portfolio of undeveloped land, hotels, mixed-use, office and development holdings in California and Texas.
• Represented an equity investor in a $50 million sale of the retail component and a $61 million sale of the apartment component of an urban mixed-use project in Washington, D.C.
• Represented a developer in the purchase of over 600 finished and unfinished lots in a residential development in Prince George's County, Maryland, as well as in the outsale of finished lots to homebuilders.
• Represented an equity investor in a $262 million purchase of two office buildings and a development parcel located in Washington, D.C.
• Represented an institutional lender in connection with several workouts and foreclosures of defaulted first lien mortgage loans in the Mid-Atlantic and Southwest regions of the U.S.