Timothy G. Little

Timothy G. Little is Co-Head of the New York Real Estate Practice. He has practiced real estate law for 25 years and has experience in many different types of real estate transactions, with a focus on real estate finance and structured real estate transactions.

Mr. Little’s clients include banks, investment banks, insurance companies, investment funds and developers. His practice includes real estate finance as well as sales and acquisitions of all types of real estate assets; development projects; domestic and international real estate fund offerings and joint ventures. He has extensive experience in real estate work-outs and distressed real estate both from a borrower and lender perspective as well partner disputes in distressed projects.

In his finance practice, Mr. Little has represented lenders in acquisition, term and construction financings, as well as mezzanine loans, senior/subordinate (“A/B”) notes and participations and multi-tiered intercreditor arrangements. He has represented agents, lenders and borrowers in secured and unsecured credit facilities to real estate companies. He has substantial experience in credit lease transactions, having represented underwriters, equity investors and lessees in domestic and international transactions involving Rule 144A offerings, private debt placements and bank financing. His practice has also included commercial mortgage-backed loan origination, work-outs of securitizations and CRE collateralized debt obligations.

Lectures 

• Panelist, “Real Estate Mezzanine Finance Summit 2010,” iGlobal Forum (April 2010) 
• Columbia University, Real Estate Masters Program—(2009 and 2010) 
• Harvard University Executive Education Programs, “Distressed Real Estate: Examining Debt and Equity Structures to Mitigate Losses and Identify Opportunities, Workouts and Restructuring—A Legal Perspective,” (July 22-23, 2009—Panelist)

Publications 

• Co-author of “Picking Up the Pieces: A Lender’s Guide to Analysis of Workouts and Restructurings of Distressed Commercial Real Estate Loans,” November 2009 
• “CDOs Impact the Debt Market,” New York Law Journal, August 2005

Education and Bar Admissions

Mr. Little received a B.S., with highest honors, from Cook College of Rutgers University in 1982 and earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1985. He is admitted to practice in New York.