Bio

Ferdinand Gallo practice covers all aspects of real estate investment, acquisition, development, financing, and disposition. In Fred’s 30-plus years of practice, he has represented clients during all phases of the lifecycle of real property across all asset classes. Fred regularly represents institutional investors and owners through all stages of project development, including land acquisition, parcel assemblage, formation, and capitalization of real estate investment joint ventures. His experience includes negotiation and documentation of construction contracts and design and development agreements for all real estate asset classes throughout the United States and Caribbean. Additionally, Fred represents commercial banks, insurance companies, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and other institutional investors, including offshore investors and sovereign wealth funds, in a wide variety of commercial real estate financing transactions and investments. Fred’s real estate financing experience includes credit tenant lease financing facilities and multistate transactions ranging from construction, permanent, and mezzanine loan facilities for retail, multifamily residential, office, industrial, datacenter, and hotel, resort, and hospitality assets throughout the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, to the acquisition and financing of portfolios of performing, nonperforming, and underperforming loans and real estate–owned assets. Fred represents borrowers and lenders on repurchase facilities, warehouse facilities, and single-family rental finance transactions, including the origination of single-family rental loans. He regularly negotiates and documents subscription lines, secured and unsecured credit facilities, and working capital facilities for hotel operators, real estate developers, and REITs. Fred’s background representing commercial lenders also includes the acquisition and disposition of distressed loans and real estate assets, loan workouts, foreclosure and other enforcement proceedings, complex multicreditor restructurings, and conveyances in lieu of foreclosure.