Overview
Emily Cantrell is a senior counsel and member of Chapman's Banking and Financial Services Department and Commercial Lending and Real Estate Finance Groups. She focuses her practice on real estate-secured financings for leading financial institutions, banks, private debt funds, and other non-bank lenders across the United States.
Emily represents financial institutions and developers/sponsors in connection with structuring, negotiating and closing construction loans, renovation loans, and acquisition loan facilities (both syndicated and non-syndicated transactions) for large multifamily, office and industrial development projects and operating properties. She also represents financial institutions in connection with second-lien financings, mezzanine loans and preferred equity investments, as well as workouts and restructurings involving distressed real estate loans.
Additionally, Emily advises owners and operators of real estate in connection with acquisition and development joint ventures, real estate syndications, and the formation and offering of closed-end private real estate funds.
In the community, Emily serves as Secretary of the Board of Refugee Support Services, a nonprofit organization that offers transition assistance to refugees in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. She has been recognized as part of the North Carolina Pro Bono Society.
Practice Focus
Admitted
North Carolina
Texas
Education
Wake Forest University, M.B.A., 2013
Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., 2011
Emory University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2005
Notable Engagements
$88 Million Construction Loan for Urban Development in DenverCounsel to the lender in an $88 million dollar infrastructure construction loan for Fox Park – a new urban development in Denver, Colorado.
Community
Refugee Support Services
- Secretary, Board of Directors
