Emily Z. Xiao

Representative Experience

• Represented an institutional asset manager in a joint venture with a multinational owner and manager of logistics facilities to acquire a 54-property portfolio of high flow-through industrial facilities located in 27 states across the United States.
• Represented an institutional asset manager in the joint venture acquisition and related financing of a 55-floor residential rental tower located in downtown Brooklyn, NY.
• Served as an advisor to a large domestic pension fund in the $400 million sale of a trophy office building in Washington, D.C.
• Advised an institutional asset manager in the formation of a multi-party joint venture to acquire, finance, and redevelop a full square block in New York City as a mixed-use (office/retail) project.
• Represented a private equity client in a sale leaseback of a portfolio of six properties in North Carolina and Virginia. 
• Represented a private equity client in its investment in a manufacturing company and related lease and real estate financing matters.
• Represented an institutional asset manager in its $65 million joint venture acquisition of a ground lease interest for mixed-use development and related $43 million construction financing in Flushing, NY.
• Served as an advisor to a large domestic pension fund in its $490 million joint venture acquisition and development of a national portfolio of over 50 properties across 20 states.
• Served as an advisor to a large domestic pension fund in its $300 million joint venture acquisition and development of a portfolio of properties, and related $181 million construction financing, for a trophy office building development in Chicago, IL.
• Served as an advisor to a large domestic pension fund in its $8 million joint venture land acquisition and $18 million construction financing for industrial development in Piscataway, NJ.
• Represented an institutional asset manager in its $150 million joint venture acquisition of a 28-acre portfolio of properties along the Chicago River to be developed into a mixed-use project in Chicago, IL, known as Lincoln Yards South, as part of the city of Chicago’s pitch for Amazon’s HQ2.
• Represented an institutional asset manager in its $510 million joint venture acquisition and $429 million mortgage and mezzanine financing of Groupon’s headquarters in Chicago, IL.
• Represented an institutional asset manager in its $113 million joint venture acquisition of The Parker, a luxury multi-family tower in the Fulton Market neighborhood of Chicago, IL.
• Represented a prominent family office investment firm in its $80 million joint venture acquisition and predevelopment of land in the southwestern U.S.
• Represented an institutional asset manager in its joint venture acquisition and $46 million development of an industrial warehouse in Chicago, IL.
• Represented an institutional asset manager in the sale of The Girard, a multi-family development in Boston’s South End neighborhood, to Equity Residential for over $116 million.
• Represented HD Supply in the real estate financing aspects of its sale of its Waterworks Division, the largest distributor of waterworks products in the U.S., to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice for $2.5 billion.
• Represented an institutional asset manager in its $150 million financing of an outdoor retail center in Raleigh, NC.
• Represented Third Point, an SEC-registered investment adviser, in its $20 million joint venture acquisition and financing of a luxury resort known as Playa Grande Club & Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
• Represented Hertz in the real estate financing aspects of its $2.5 billion spin-off of its equipment and rental business.
• Represented Reynolds Group Holdings in the real estate financing aspects of the issuance of $2.1 billion senior secured fixed and floating rate notes and $800 million senior notes.
• Represented American Securities and P2 Capital Partners in the real estate financing aspects of their $855 million acquisition of Blount International.
• Represented an institutional asset manager in its joint venture acquisition and financing of Ink Block, a mixed-use project on the site of the old Boston Herald headquarters in Boston, MA.