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Attorney Profile
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Nicholas N. Sears
Partner
Phone: 404.504.7750
Fax: 404.365.9532
Email: nsears@mmmlaw.com
Nicholas N. Sears is a partner in the firm’s Real Estate Development and Finance Practice. Mr. Sears leads the firm’s Commercial Real Estate Debt Management Practice, a practice dedicated to providing legal support and practical business advice to real estate owners in all aspects of their relationships with lenders. Additionally, Mr. Sears practices in the areas of asset-based lending, commercial workouts, creditors’ rights and bankruptcy, real estate development and finance, and real estate capital markets.
Over the course of his practice, Mr. Sears has guided both lenders and borrowers through three serious real estate recessions. Mr. Sears’ extensive experience in negotiating and closing conduit loans since the inception of the CMBS market and his resulting expertise with the terms and pitfalls of the loan documents, together with his business acumen and real estate legal knowledge, provides him with a uniquely qualified basis from which to advise borrowers in all aspects of their relationship with their lenders.
Recent Experience
Representation of CMBS borrower in negotiation with special servicer related to matured loan with negative equity.
Representation of CMBS borrowers in conduit lending transactions.
Representation of a national real estate developer in closing of $675 million in secured credit facilities arranged by an international bank.
Representation of a national bank in closing of a $360 million senior secured revolving credit facility and term loan facility for a residential real estate developer.
Representation of publicly traded hotel company and subsidiaries in a $370 million refinancing of 64 hotels through three existing loans, four fixed rate loans, one floating rate loan and two mezzanine loans.
Representation of a borrower in a $53 million refinancing for properties located in five states which included the refinancing of several existing senior and mezzanine loans with two senior loans and a mezzanine loan.
Bar Admissions
State Bar of Georgia, admitted 1973
Education
Emory University, B.A., with honors, 1969
University of Georgia, J.D., cum laude, 1973
Executive Editor, Georgia Law Review, 1972-73
Honors and Affiliations
Listed, Legal 500 US 2008, Leading Lawyers (Real Estate)
Publications
Author:
"Note: Puts and Calls Under Section 16: Is A New Approach Needed?"; 7 Georgia
Law Review 153, 1972
Latest Press Releases
11/13/2008 - MMM Launches Commercial Real Estate Debt Management Practice
Service Areas
Commercial Lending
Commercial Real Estate Debt Management
Creditors Rights & Bankruptcy
Environmental
Real Estate Development & Finance
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