Susan Jennifer Booth Partner Los Angeles T 213.896.2540 Susan.Booth@hklaw.com Related Practices: Commercial Lending Construction Transactions Financial Services Hospitality, Resort and Timeshare Multifamily Housing Private Equity Real Estate Real Estate Finance Susan J. Booth spent more than a decade as the head of Holland & Knight's West Coast Real Estate Group and has also served on the firm's Directors Committee. Ms. Booth has extensive experience in negotiating, drafting and successfully closing large commercial financing and purchase/sale transactions involving shopping centers, hotels, condominiums, office buildings, industrial parks, data centers, senior-living centers and residential, commercial and mixed-use developments. Clients call on Ms. Booth for her experience handling debt matters, including CMBS and portfolio loans (acquisition, development, construction, revolving, permanent, mezzanine, EB-5 and sharia compliant), co-lending and participation arrangements, as well as mortgage loan portfolio sales/acquisitions. She has also devoted a substantial amount of time to assisting lenders and borrowers in developing and implementing strategies to resolve the issues arising from nonperforming real estate assets. She has closed more than $1 billion in transactions annually over the past several years. Experience Sales and Acquisitions Represented OUE Limited as the buyer of the 1.4 million-square-foot US Bank Tower in Los Angeles for $367.5 million and as the borrower under a $220 million secured financing Represented Digital Realty Trust Inc. in the real estate component (1.3 million square feet of data center space in 20 facilities throughout the United States) of its $1.89 billion acquisition of Telx Group Inc. Represented CIT Bank N.A. as lead lender in a $334.5 million syndicated financing to affiliates of Iconiq Capital for the acquisition of a multi-state data center portfolio Represented NRG Potrero LLC in the sale of the former Potrero Power Plant located on an approximately 21-acre development site in San Francisco Lending Transactions Represented Wells Fargo Bank in connection with a $304 million loan secured by both receivables and a major metropolitan office building in a unique hybrid financing Represented a federal governmental entity in the workout and sale of billions of dollars of real
estate mortgage and mezzanine loans that it acquired from a large (and now defunct) financial company Honors & Awards Mathew S. Rae, Jr. Outstanding Section Leader Award, Los Angeles County Bar Association Client Service All-Star, The BTI Consulting Group, Inc., 2017 Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers guide, Real Estate, 2010-2017 The Best Lawyers in America guide, Real Estate Law, 2013-2017 Expert Guides: World's Leading Real Estate Lawyers, 2013-2017 Expert Guides: World's Leading Women in Business Law, 2013-2017 The Legal 500 USA, Real Estate & Construction: Real Estate, 2011, 2014-2016 Southern California Super Lawyers magazine, 2010-2017 Top 50 Women Attorneys in Southern California, Super Lawyers magazine, 2014, 2015 Women of Influence (California), Real Estate Forum, June 2015 Los Angeles Business Journal, Women Making a Difference Nominee, 2013, 2015 Los Angeles Power Women in Commercial Real Estate, Bisnow, 2014 Up-and-Coming Real Estate Lawyer (nationally), Chambers Women in Law Awards, 2013 Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Los Angeles, Women at the Top, 2012 Deal Maker of the Year in Real Estate, California Real Estate Journal, 2009 Commendation, City of Los Angeles, 2012 Publications West Coast Real Estate Update: June 20, 2017, Holland & Knight Alert, June 20, 2017 West Coast Real Estate Update: May 23, 2017, Holland & Knight Alert, May 23, 2017 West Coast Real Estate Update: May 9, 2017, Holland & Knight Update, May 9, 2017 West Coast Real Estate Update: May 1, 2017, Holland & Knight Update, May 1, 2017 West Coast Real Estate Update: April 17, 2017, Holland & Knight Update, April 17, 2017 West Coast Real Estate Update: April 11, 2017, Holland & Knight Update, April 11, 2017 West Coast Real Estate Update: March 6, 2017, Holland & Knight Update, March 6, 2017 West Coast Real Estate Update: Feb. 21, 2017, Holland & Knight Update, February 21, 2017 West Coast Real Estate Update: Feb. 13, 2017, Holland & Knight Update, February 13, 2017 West Coast Real Estate Update: Jan. 23, 2017, Holland & Knight Alert, January 23, 2017 West Coast Real Estate Update: Jan. 17, 2017, Holland & Knight Alert, January 17, 2017 West Coast Real Estate Update: Dec. 29, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, December 29, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: Nov. 28, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, November 28, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: Nov. 22, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, November 22, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: Nov. 14, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, November 14, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: Oct. 17, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, October 17, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: Oct. 10, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, October 10, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: June 28, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, June 28, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: June 14, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, June 14, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: May 18, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, May 18, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: May 11, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, May 11, 2016
West Coast Real Estate Update: May 3, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, May 3, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: April 13, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, April 13, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: March 22, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, March 22, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: March 8, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, March 8, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: March 2, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, March 2, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: Feb. 22, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, February 22, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: Feb. 16, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, February 16, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: Feb. 8, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, February 8, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: Feb. 1, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, February 1, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: Jan. 25, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, January 25, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: Jan. 19, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, January 19, 2016 West Coast Real Estate Update: Jan. 11, 2016, Holland & Knight Update, January 11, 2016 Banking and Lending Institution Forms with Commentary and Checklist, Islamic Financing Chapter, (Updated Semi-Annually) EB-5 Capital in Real Estate Transactions: The Fundamentals, The Real Estate Finance Journal, Fall/Winter 2015 Helping Clients Achieve Successful Commercial Real Estate Financing Deals Chapter, Inside the Minds: Commercial Real Estate Finance Strategies, May 2013 How to Create Better Lawyers, Los Angeles Lawyer s Special Issue: Inside LACBA, March 2013 The Property Owner's Guide for Opportunities in a Down Real Estate Market: 10 Tips for Improving Your Situation, California Real Estate Journal, February 2010 The Legacy Loans Program: Maximizing the Opportunities, California Real Estate Journal, May 2009 Interesting Times Are Upon Us, Southern California Real Estate, December 2008 Anticipating a Workout?, Holland & Knight Newsletter, 3rd Quarter 2008 Plotting a Course through the Credit Crunch Roundtable, California Real Estate Journal, June 2008 Ten Steps a Mortgage Lender Should Take Before the Workout Starts, Los Angeles Lawyer, April 9, 2008 The Market Paradigm: Challenges Create Opportunities, California Centers Magazine, March 1, 2008 Speaking Engagements Tectonic Shifts in Commercial Real Estate Financing: It Is No Longer Business as Usual, Real Estate and Business Forum, March 10, 2016 Dialing for Dollars: Trends in Real Estate Finance, American College of Real Estate Lawyers, October 2015 Foreign Investment in the U.S. Commercial Real Estate Market, Real Estate Law and Business Forum, USC Gould School of Law, March 12, 2015 Real Estate Development and Finance, Guest Lecturer, USC Gould School of Law, 2009-2013, 2015 Don t Be the Defendant: Understanding the Complexities of Seemingly Simple Ethical Situations, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, September 22, 2014 Commercial Real Estate Financing: Structuring and Documenting Transactions in a Reviving
Market, The American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education, June 19 and 20, 2014 Don t Be the Deep Pocket : Tips for Avoiding Costly Ethical Mistakes, 2014 Real Estate Law and Business Forum, USC Gould School of Law, March 5, 2014 Specialized Lending: Sharia Law, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, September 27, 2013 View from the Top, Moderator, Commercial Real Estate Women Los Angeles Seminar, June 12, 2013 Real Estate Law and Business Forum, USC Gould School of Law, March 7, 2013 Capital Markets Today Matching the Money to the Deal, Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium on Real Estate Law and Business, October 30, 2012 Unique Perspectives on the Financial Crisis, Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium on Real Estate Law and Business, October 4, 2011 Non-Foreclosure Exit Options: Discounted Payoffs, Deeds-in-Lieu & Structured Sales, IMN Bank & Financial Institutions Special Assets Executive Forum: Real Estate Workouts, September 12, 2011 After "Pray and Delay", What Comes Next? Mastering CMBS Loan Workouts and Restructurings, Crocker Symposium, Los Angeles, March 23, 2010 Commercial Real Estate Loan Workout Tips, Tricks and Strategies - What Real Estate Lawyers Need to Know About the Newest and Most Effective Techniques, ExecSense Webinars, February 5, 2010 Creative Approaches to Workouts in the Hospitality Industry, Roundtable Discussion, October 2009 Successful Real Estate Loan Workouts: The Basic Blueprint, 2009 Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium on Real Estate Law and Business, May 2009 Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?" How, From Whom and in What Form Will Debt Capital be Available over the Next Five Years?, USC Gould School of Law, 2009 Real Estate Law and Business Forum, March 2009 Troubled Mortgage Loans and Workouts, PLI (Practicing Law Institute) Commercial Real Estate Financing 2009: How the World Changed, January 2009 Best Practices in Due Diligence for Distressed Loan Purchases, Distressed Real Estate Summit West, December 2008 IMN's Distressed Real Estate Investing Conference, June 26, 2008 Loan, Property and Legal Due Diligence, IMN (International Management Network) Symposium on Distressed Real Estate, June 2008 Plotting a Course through the Credit Crunch Roundtable, California Real Estate Journal, May 2008 Evaluating a Troubled Real Estate Asset, Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium on Real Estate Law and Business, April 2008 Going to the Bank Financing the Project, CLE International Mixed-Use Development Conference, January 2008 The Latest Trends in Debt and Equity Markets, American Conference Institute, 2nd National Forum on Alternative Financing in Commercial Real Estate, March 2007 Loan Workouts Before and After Bankruptcy, Los Angeles County Bar Association, March 2007 The Re-emergence of Hotel Financing and the Growth of Condotel Financing: Do You Know What You Need To Know?, Los Angeles County Bar Association, September 2006 Conduit Loan Defeasance, Los Angeles County Bar Association, March 2006 Of Course We'll Make the Loan. After All, What Is So Unique about Financing a Ground Lease, Los Angeles County Bar Association, October 2004 SNDA's: Tenants, Landlords and Lenders: Why is it so Hard to Agree?, Los Angeles County Bar
Association, October 2003 Memberships Los Angeles County Bar Association Real Property Section, Chair Stanford Real Estate Council, Board Member UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate, Past Board Member American College of Real Estate Lawyers, Capital Markets Committee, Chair American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Capital Markets Committee, Co-Chair Law 360 Real Estate Editorial Board City of Hope, Los Angeles Real Estate and Construction Industries Council, Executive Committee Kansas City Barbeque Society, Certified Judge University of California, Los Angeles Law Review, Managing Editor Education Stanford University, B.A. UCLA School of Law, J.D. UCLA Anderson School of Management, MBA Bar Admissions California Attorney Advertising. Copyright 1996 2017 Holland & Knight LLP. All rights reserved.