Josh Reif is a seasoned real estate finance lawyer with a breadth of experience in sophisticated financial transactions backed by commercial real estate nationwide. Combining deep experience with an intimate understanding of his clients’ businesses, Josh takes a thorough, solution-oriented and efficient approach to ensure risks are identified and addressed, problems are solved and deals are closed as expeditiously as possible. Josh represents domestic and international banks, private funds and other financial institutions in closing, acquiring, selling, servicing and financing their commercial real estate loans. 

With a particular focus on representing clients as both lender/buyer and borrower/seller in warehouse lending structures, CRE repurchase (“repo”) facilities, note-on-note transactions (including single asset financings as well as portfolio and revolving structures), co-lender and participation agreements and other financial strategies, Josh provides strategic counsel to his clients in providing and obtaining leverage backed by commercial mortgage and mezzanine loans. Josh also routinely serves as lender’s counsel with experience in all types of commercial real estate financing structures, including traditional fixed and floating rate mortgage loans, mezzanine loans and component note structures, in all types of intended executions (balance sheet, CMBS/CLO execution, table fundings, syndication, etc.) and across asset classes nationwide.   

In addition, Josh’s finance experience also includes representing lenders, servicers and special servicers in workout and restructuring transactions, REO dispositions, receiverships, bankruptcies and foreclosure/deed-in-lieu transactions.

Supplementing his robust finance experience, Josh also regularly represents buyers and sellers in the acquisition, disposition and financing of commercial real estate.