Lawrence E. "Larry" Uchill

As a real estate and capital markets lawyer with 40 years of experience, my practice focuses on real estate, alternative energy and structured finance, with particular expertise in mezzanine financing. My experience spans a broad range of commercial real estate asset classes located throughout the United States and around the world, including a wide array of projects concerning:

• complex mortgage financings
• acquisitions and dispositions
• joint venture formation and raising capital
• sale leasebacks and credit tenant lease financings
• development transactions (involving private sector and governmental parties)
• military housing
• multi-family housing
• retail
• hotel
• mixed-use real estate
• REIT formation
• leasing
• energy conservation
• wind turbine and other alternative energy

Over the past 40 years, I have specialized in capital market transactions, and have represented and originated loans for major investment banks, and mezzanine loan funds, as well as for major real estate companies that have secured real estate financing. In 2007, I represented a mezzanine loan fund which formed and syndicated the last CDO mezzanine fund to close in the United States, prior to the on-set of the recent great recession.

Further areas of expertise include:

• credit tenant financings
• office and retail leasing
• real estate syndications
• commercial condominiums
• title, zoning and subdivision analysis
• construction contracts
• interest rate swaps
• working with rating agencies
• project and capital financings
• mezzanine debt dispositions
• ground leases
• 1031 transactions
• asset recovery
• loan workouts

Since 1996, I have served as an adjunct law professor at Boston University, teaching a course on Securitization and Structured Finance.