Los Angeles, California. Nixon Peabody LLP has expanded its West Coast real estate team with partner David Barksdale and attorney Joe Bini joining the firm’s affordable housing and real estate practice in its Los Angeles office.
Dave is the 15th lateral partner to join Nixon Peabody this year and has more than 35 years of experience advising lender and borrower clients. His practice focuses on a wide range of complex real estate transactions, including structured and syndicated finance, acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, project finance, workouts and restructurings, and development and construction. He works with clients in a variety of industries to structure, negotiate, and finance joint venture investments. Dave works with institutional investors such as life insurance companies, private equity funds, pension funds and investment banks, as well as lenders, borrowers, investors and developers of a wide range of asset types including retail, office, industrial, hotel, casino and specialty properties. I am representing you as a person. mixed-use, residential, and mixed-use real estate. He has extensive experience in processing real estate loan workouts and restructurings, as well as originating real estate loans at all levels of the capital stack, from senior mortgages and mezzanine loans to preferred equity.
“Our practice continues to experience significant growth in response to sustained and increasing demand from our clients,” said Chris Frobe, leader of Nixon Peabody’s affordable housing and real estate practice. said. “Recent interest rate reductions should begin to ease the challenge of putting together complex financing transactions, and this is a great opportunity to add the depth of experience that Dave and Joe bring.”
Joe advises banks, institutional investors, private equity groups, life insurance companies, and pension funds on financial matters, including the origination and origination of real estate loans and equity investments in construction joint ventures. Our focus is on commercial real estate transaction practices. Acquisition, senior, mezzanine and senior financing arrangements. Joe’s practice spans all real estate asset classes and industries.
“California’s real estate landscape is complex and nuanced,” said Sonia Nayak, managing partner in Nixon Peabody’s Los Angeles office. “Dave and Joe understand our unique market and their combined experience strengthens our ability to serve our clients’ needs in all areas of real estate finance and investment matters, both locally and nationally. .”
Dave received his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, and his BA and B.S. degrees from Oral Roberts University. Joe received his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and his BA from Boston University.