Kimberly A. Wachen

Kimberly Wachen is a real estate partner at Arent Fox and co-chair of the Hospitality Industry Practice Group.  She handles a wide variety of commercial real estate and corporate transactions on a national and local level and is known as the "go-to" attorney for particularly large and/or complex deals.  Ms. Wachen has lead numerous commercial real estate transactions ranging from the purchase and sale of individual properties (e.g., hotels, senior living facilities, office buildings, apartment buildings, data centers, and shopping centers) to multi-state portfolio purchases and sales of real estate and loan portfolios.  She represents real estate investors, developers and managers of large commercial real estate projects.  She has particular experience in the negotiation of joint venture, purchase, sale, development, management and financing agreements for hotel and resort properties and senior living facilities.  She also has extensive experience in ground leasing and other leasing transactions including large headquarter leases, data centers, office space leases, restaurant leases, industrial leases (including refrigerated warehouse space) and retail leases. Ms. Wachen's corporate experience, for both public and privately held companies, includes the structuring and negotiation of acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations and international joint ventures ranging in size from $30 million to $810 million.  She has significant experience in equity participations and debt financing arrangements for large real estate projects, including construction loans, mezzanine loans, take-out financing, sale-leaseback transactions, preferred equity, joint ventures and other equity infusion structures.