Commercial and Real Estate Finance

Nutter represented MassMutual Asset Finance in the equipment finance syndications market from its inception in billions of dollars of acquisition.

Represented insurance company on multiple portfolio loans, totaling approximately $550 million and secured by industrial properties located throughout the United States, including the sale of a portion of the debt to a third-party investor.

Represented several of the largest U.S. financial institutions in connection with warehouse facilities for (a) Fannie Mae approved lenders and multifamily residential mortgage originators approved by Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae, and (b) some of the Nation’s most active Low-Income housing tax credit syndicators.

Nutter represented a private real estate fund in the formation of a “REIT feeder structure,” consisting of a domestically controlled private real estate investment trust that is a subsidiary of a newly-formed Delaware limited partnership. The structure is intended to accommodate investments by qualified purchasers (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940).

Nutter represented Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, as lender, in connection with a $24 million acquisition loan secured by two connected 7-story office buildings in Chicago, Illinois.

Nutter represented Farmers Business Network, an entrepreneurial agronomics business, in exploring and structuring lending opportunities, including loans secured by 2017 and 2018 farm products to farmers in Kansas, Minnesota, and Nebraska.

Represented a consortium of banks and life insurance companies on approximately $345 million construction/permanent financings for two mixed-use residential and retail project within commercial condominiums in the Fenway section of Boston, including negotiation of intercreditor and recognition agreements with an institutional buyer of a component of one of the projects and with a pension fund equity investor in another of the completed projects.

Represented a lending group of six money-center banks to a diversified real estate investment company in the workout and restructuring of a half billion dollars of credit facilities in which all lenders exited with one hundred cents on the dollar.

Nutter represented its client, Tuscan Village, in connection with a $60 million construction loan for the development of South Village, part of the Tuscan Village project.

Nutter represented T3 Expo, LLC, the general contractor for creating shareable moments™ for tradeshows and corporate events, in its financing with MB Capital Fund IV, LLC.

Nutter advised Brighton Marine on all aspects of the development of The Residences at Brighton Marine, a $46 million project that created 102 units of affordable housing in Boston with a preference for veterans. Nutter provided counsel on all aspects of the project, including the original strategic planning, the permitting, the formation of the joint venture with WinnCompanies, the ground lease to the joint venture, and the financing.

Nutter represented Bright Marine in its residential development at 1485 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, MA. 102 residential rental units located on the Brighton Marine Health Center campus, steps from the MBTA Green Line, containing both affordable housing and workforce housing units, all with a preference for veterans. The project includes a below-grade parking garage containing 47 spaces, and 40 spaces are located at grade. Nutter's role in the project was permitting, joint venture formation, leasing and financing.

Nutter represented Edgewood Retirement Community Inc., The Baldwin Senior Living, and Edgewood Senior Solutions Group Inc. in connection with the acquisition of a 15.1 acre property in Londonderry, NH, where it plans to build an all-new, one-of-a-kind senior living community called The Baldwin.

Nutter served as legal counsel to Griffith Properties, LLC and DRA Advisors in a joint venture in the acquisition, financing, and permitting for redevelopment of 580 Pleasant Street in Watertown, MA.

Nutter represented a regional bank, as lender, in connection with a $25 million loan to finance the acquisition of an 8,712 sq. ft lot with a 1,232 sq. ft building, and a 4.9-acre lot with a 3,800 sq. ft. building, for a medical cannabis business in Florida.

Nutter represented a regional bank on a $10.9 million term loan to co-borrowers conducting retail and cultivation operations in the cannabis industry, a portion of which loan was used to refinance existing indebtedness used to assist the borrowers to acquire real estate located in Littleton, MA.

Nutter represented a regional bank, as lender, in connection with financing totaling $43.9 million for the acquisition and operation of a licensed processor of medical and adult-use (recreational) marijuana with locations throughout Michigan.

Nutter represented a regional bank, as lender, in connection with a $10.3 million loan for the acquisition and construction of a cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facility located in Uxbridge, MA.

Nutter represented a regional bank in a $50 million multi-advance facility secured by real estate loans extended by the bank’s borrower to cannabis companies throughout the country.

Nutter represented a regional bank, as lender, in connection with a $58.7 million loan to finance four properties for a premier seed-to-consumer vertically integrated multi-state operator in Massachusetts and Maryland.