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Helen McKinney

Counsel

Email

helen.mckinney@aoshearman.com

Phone

+1 212 848 7458

Offices

New York

V-CARD
Helen has extensive experience in real estate acquisitions and dispositions, joint venture formations, commercial leasing and financing transactions, including mortgage, mezzanine, construction, hotel financings and capital markets issuances (including securitized, warehouse and conduit financing).
Helen represents both lenders and borrowers in the investment, ownership and development of real estate across the globe.

Expertise

Real estate

Experience

Representative matters

  • CIT Bank, N.A., as the administrative agent and collateral agent in connection with the refinance of a $65.6 million loan made to KMC Thermo, LLC, which loan was secured in part by a power plant facility located in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
  • Citibank, N.A. in $1 billion in senior unsecured credit facilities and term loans for Hersha Hospitality Trust, a REIT in the hospitality sector that owns and operates high quality hotels in gateway markets and select destination resorts.
  • Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as administrative agent, in connection with $600 million in senior unsecured credit facilities for Summit Hotel Properties.
  • Landesbank Baden-Württemberg on numerous senior loans secured by retail, office and multifamily apartments across the United States, including 34 Desbrosses Street, 520 West 30th Street and 435 Seventh Avenue, each located in New York, New York, and 1755 Argyle Avenue, Los Angeles, California.
  • GTIS Partners in connection with a co-investment vehicle to invest in a joint venture with Triangle Equities to construct a luxury condominium development in New York City.
  • A sovereign wealth fund with respect to the acquisition of a 49.9% percent share in several joint ventures which in turn indirectly own the fee and leasehold interest in a portfolio of properties and the financing of the same.
  • A Gulf-based investor in connection with the acquisition and financing of two multifamily properties located 142 West 36th Street and 234 West 39th Street, New York, New York.
  • Strategic Capital on its financing of an office building and condominium located in Morristown, New Jersey and a multifamily apartment building located in Houston, Texas.
  • Mary McDowell Friends School, a non-for-profit educational institution on its acquisition and financing of property located in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, New York.

Qualifications

Admissions

Attorney-at-Law, New York State (First Dept), 2015

Academic

B.A., Hamilton College, 2010

J.D., New York Law School, 2014

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.