Profile
Michael A. Suleta, a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice, represents developers, institutional investors and lenders in connection with the acquisition, disposition, leasing and management of multi-family, industrial, office, retail and hotel properties. Michael has wide-ranging business and legal experience in a broad array of real estate and finance transactions. He is also experienced in complex joint ventures, affordable housing developments, commercial leasing, distressed assets, sophisticated real estate workouts and commercial foreclosures.
Prior to practicing law, Michael represented numerous Fortune 500 corporations as a financial management consultant at a Big Four accounting firm.
Concentrations
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Joint Ventures
- Real estate finance
- Leasing
- Affordable housing development
- Foreclosure litigation
The attorney is providing legal services through and affiliated with Greenberg Traurig, LLP, a New York Limited Liability Partnership. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Capabilities
Experience
- Representation of a national lender in the largest Texas C-PACE financing transaction to date ($48,475,000) for the construction costs and expenses associated with specific energy improvements. These enhancements are to be undertaken by the property owner in conjunction with the construction of a new full-service luxury hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
- Representation of a national lender in securing retroactive Pennsylvania Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing. This financing supports energy efficiency and water conservation measures installed during the construction of a mixed-use multifamily and commercial condominium in Philadelphia.
- Representation of a national lender in facilitating $17,914,777 in C-PACE financing. This financing is designated for the implementation of energy efficiency and water conservation measures during the construction of a new 220-unit multifamily development in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Representation of a national lender which facilitated $40,000,000 in C-PACE financing. This financing is intended for the implementation of energy efficiency and water conservation measures during the construction of a new 329-unit multifamily property with approximately 14,000 square feet of retail space in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Representation of a national lender which executed the first C-PACE loan in Delaware. This initiative aims to fund energy-efficient upgrades for Wilmington's historic DuPont Building.
- Representation of a leading private debt firm in a series of short-term, bridge-to-HUD financings of large scale, multi-state portfolio and single-asset transactions secured by medical office buildings, skilled nursing facilities and other health care projects throughout the United States.
- Representation of a joint-venture in its $73 million financing and derivative transaction, including interest rate swap, for its leasehold acquisition of various health care facilities in Atlanta and Hackettstown, New Jersey.
- Representation of a regional financial services institution in its $30 million construction financing and derivative transaction, including interest rate swap, secured by a health care facility in Holmdel, New Jersey.
- Representation of a multifamily real estate investment firm in its acquisition financing and derivative transaction – including interest rate caps – for its acquisition and development of multifamily projects in Philadelphia.
- Representation of a joint-venture in its acquisition of a controlling interest of the owners of a portfolio of office, retail and parking facilities in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The portfolio includes a historic office and retail building as well as the adjacent garage, movie theater and two additional office buildings;
- Representation of a joint-venture in its refinancing of a luxury hotel in the Old Town neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia.
- Representation of various affordable housing developers in connection with the acquisition, development, financing and sale of projects in Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania and other states;
- Representation of various developers and lenders in connection with the structuring, negotiation and documentation of sophisticated real estate workouts.
Recognition & Leadership
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2023
- Team Member, Chambers & Partners USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2017-2018 and 2022
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, "Rising Stars," 2016-2017
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- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, California Bar Association
- Member, Delaware Bar Association
- Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Member, Philadelphia Bar Association
Credentials
- J.D., Rutgers School of Law - Camden, 2007
- B.S., Boston College, 1999
- Hon. Manuel Barbosa, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 2008-2009
- Hon. Anthony J. Parrillo, Supreme Court of New Jersey, 2007-2008
- California
- Delaware
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania