Christi focuses her practice on commercial finance and real estate transactions. She has built a reputation for navigating complex and sophisticated deal structures and delivering results-oriented solutions for her clients.

Christi advises a diverse clientele, including large and middle market financial institutions, mezzanine lenders, institutional investors, private equity groups, business owners, developers, and  other various entities on all aspects of commercial finance and real estate matters. She is known for skillfully handling multi-layered debt and equity structures, including asset-based loans, syndicated loans, real estate loans, construction financing, and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions across a variety of asset classes.

Christi also has specialized knowledge and experience handling financial transactions guaranteed by the Small Business Administration. Over her career, she has worked with various SBA lenders, assisting in the successful closing of hundreds of SBA loans, including those for business acquisitions, partial business acquisitions, start-ups and working capital. Christi is well-versed in the major SBA programs, including the 7(a) and 504 guaranteed loan programs and is committed to making the document intensive closing process as quick and seamless as possible.

In addition to commercial finance, Christi manages an extensive and multifaceted real estate practice, representing owners, developers, shopping centers, landlords, tenants, buyers, sellers, and investors in various real estate transactions including real estate acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, construction, property management, landlord/tenant matters, and title insurance matters.

Representative Experience

• Counseled a sophisticated real estate investor in the disposition of a portfolio of real estate assets totaling over $86,000,000.00 in value, with over 40 parcels of real property and over 1,000 pieces of titled assets, including the preparation and negotiation of the portfolio asset purchase documents and seller financing documentation.
• Represented a major financial institution in the origination, negotiation, and successive amendments of over $55,000,000.00 in asset-based loans securing portfolio of industrial and intellectual property assets.
• Represented one of the largest state-based financial institutions in the origination and negotiation of over $50,000,000 in real estate loans securing a portfolio of real property.
• Represented one of the largest state-based financial institutions in the origination and negotiation of over $77,892,000.00 in construction financing for a multi-use commercial property.
• Represented one of the largest state-based financial institutions in a complex, syndicated construction loan including five sets of subordinate financing and multiple investors in the borrower entity.
• Represented one of the largest state-based financial institutions in the origination and negotiation of over $56,000,000.00 in permanent financing, secured by a portfolio of real property, for securitization by Freddie Mac.
• Represented a major financial institution in the origination, negotiation, and successive amendments of over $35,000,000.00 in senior and mezzanine asset-based loans, financing the acquisition of assets of a large fabrication company and secured by a mixed portfolio of equipment and machinery, intellectual property assets and real property.