Practice:

Bill Seligman, a partner in the Real Estate group, brings over 20 years experience representing real estate investors in debt and equity investments at all phases of the real estate cycle. He has represented senior and mezzanine lenders, and institutional equity investors, in equity and debt investments in all major asset classes throughout the United States. His lending experience includes construction, bridge and permanent loans, for syndicated facilities, portfolio lenders and securitization execution. He also has represented both lenders and owners in foreclosures (consenual and contested), negotiated workouts, deed-in-lieu transactions, bankruptcy of real estate holding companies, loan sales, equity recapitalizations, and other exit strategies for under-performing or distressed investments.

Affiliations:

Bill has served as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Commercial Real Estate Asset Management of the American Bar Association’s Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law (1995-2000), and has been a member of the CRE Finance Council, the Mortgage Bankers’ Association of America, the Central City Association of Los Angeles and other trade organizations.

Bar Admission:

California and New York

Education:

Bachelor of Arts – 1986, Columbia College

Juris Doctor - 1989, Columbia Law School
Managing Editor, Columbia Journal of Environmental Law.