McGuire, Craddock & Strother

Cullen has extensive experience representing domestic and foreign clients in a wide variety of commercial real estate, corporate, partnership, and other business transactions, including representation of owners, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, and brokers in connection with the acquisition, sale, financing, leasing, and operation of commercial real estate; formation, restructuring, purchase, and sale of partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations; representation of lenders and borrowers in connection with loans, loan modifications, and work-outs; representation of foreign investors doing business in the United States, and representation of U.S. companies doing business with foreign investors; and general business transactions.

Representation of real estate investment banking firm in acquisition and financing of 23 shopping centers in nine states within nine months

Representation of foreign investment group in purchase, financing, operation, refinancing and subsequent sale of high-rise hotel, including structuring of partnership between U.S. and foreign partners and negotiation of management, franchise and other contracts

Representation of investment group in purchase and subsequent sale of golf course, reverse osmosis plant, and related development land in U.S. Virgin Islands

Representation of a German finance company in refinancing of foreign currency loans secured by mortgages on retail properties in five states, and in pledging the loan documents to a Luxembourg bank

Representation of real estate investment banking firm in creating “revolving line of equity” to finance serial build-to-suit developments

Representation of developers in negotiations with institutional investors

Representation of developers in lot developments, build-to-suits, and commercial developments

Representation of buyers and sellers of over $1 Billion of apartments, shopping centers, office buildings, hotels, warehouses, self-storage properties, and land

Representation of large homebuilder on sale and financing of entire San Antonio operations (including the sale of real, personal and intangible property and assignment and assumption of various loans, contracts and other obligations), and on subsequent reacquisition of those operations

Development of innovative technique for restructuring U.S. partnerships in a manner that facilitated purchase of those partnerships by Canadian investors. Subsequently used this technique to assist a partnership in Chapter 11 to raise Canadian and U.S. funds necessary to confirm a plan of reorganization

Due diligence on $220,000,000.00 loan by pension fund client to major developer, secured by office, industrial, retail, residential, and undeveloped properties

Representation of foreign investment banking groups in loans secured by shopping centers, office buildings, and residential lot developments

Representation of numerous property owners in acquisition loans, construction loans, and refinancings with securitized and traditional lenders

Representation of bank in warehouse lines of credit to homebuilders

Representation of automobile finance company in purchase of notes from dealers and subsequent securitization

Formation of various partnerships to purchase notes, loan pools, judgments and deficiency claims.

Representation of banks and other financial institutions in loan workouts involving developers, automobile dealerships, manufacturing companies, mortgage companies, and others.

Cullen is AV® Peer Review Rated by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell