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Jim Theiss is a partner in the firm's Banking Department. He is experienced in the area of commercial finance, including secured and unsecured bank lending. He specializes in real estate related finance matters, synthetic lease transactions and subscription agreement financing, including revolving credit for REIT's and opportunity funds, construction, acquisition and permanent financing for office, industrial, hotel, residential (including single family and apartments), retail (including shopping centers) and other real estate and leasing for similar real estate, manufacturing facilities and equipment. Mr. Theiss also has extensive experience in loan workouts and restructurings and loan and asset sales. He represents several domestic and foreign banking institutions and leasing companies including Bank of Montreal, Harris N.A., BNP Paribas, National Australia Bank, ING Real Estate Finance and Fannie Mae, as well as syndicates agented or co-agented by such institutions. Mr. Theiss has worked on projects in most of the states and in all geographic areas of the country. Representative projects, synthetic leases and subscription financings include: Construction and mini-perm loans for office buildings aggregating in excess of $700 million including 77 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois; Gallagher Office Center, Itasca, Illinois; One Detroit Center, Detroit, Michigan; Dallas Main Center (Nationsbank Plaza), Dallas, Texas Construction and mini-perm loans for hotels aggregating in excess of $300 million including Santa Barbara Biltmore Hotel, Santa Barbara, California; Adams Mark Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri; Marriott Hotel, Chicago, Illinois Construction and mini-perm loans for shopping centers aggregating in excess of $500 million including Northpoint Mall, Alpharetta, Georgia; Brandon Mall, Brandon, Florida; River Oaks Shopping Center, Calumet City, Illinois; North Pier Festival Market, Chicago, Illinois; Short Pump Mall, Richmond Virginia; Bolingbrook Town Center, Bolingbrook, Illinois Synthetic leases for Aluminum Rolling Mill, Bank Headquarters Office Building, regional warehouse and distribution centers, printing equipment and auto manufacturing equipment, aircraft, aircraft engines, construction equipment, furniture, fixtures and equipment, vineyards Subscription financings in excess of $3 billion for real estate opportunity funds including Lone Star Funds, Emerging Markets Real Estate Funds, Transwestern Funds, Starwood Opportunity Funds, Prudential Real Estate Funds and European Real Estate Opportunity Funds. |
