Bio

Cynthia Brotman Nelson has over 25 years’ experience representing and consulting institutional and entrepreneurial companies that develop, own, operate, finance, lease, and manage all types of commercial properties, with an emphasis on hotels and resorts and mixed-use developments. Cindy regularly handles sophisticated commercial real estate and financing transactions, often involving iconic properties, and represents owners, REITs, opportunity funds and developers. She represents clients in the development, acquisition, disposition, leasing, and financing of domestic and foreign commercial properties, including hotels and mixed-use developments, shopping centers, multifamily housing developments, office buildings, industrial properties, unimproved land, and fractional and timeshare properties. Cindy’s practice regularly represents and consults for institutional and entrepreneurial hospitality clients who rely on her efficient and diligent approach to closing varied, high-stakes transactions. Regarded as a creative problem solver, she is relied upon not only for the real estate law aspects of the transaction, but also the operational components of running a hotel, making her uniquely qualified to both guide and protect clients in all aspects of the hotel operating business. Cindy’s practice includes senior and mezzanine financing services, complex workout and debt restructuring, joint ventures, management agreements, franchise agreements, buying, selling, developing, and ground leasing of all types of commercial real estate products. She also assists investors with recapitalization of distressed borrowers and purchasers of troubled assets.