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.
Representative Matters
- Represented the administrative agent in a $62.5 million real estate secured term loan to refinance a historic hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, operated by a luxury global hotel flag.
- Served as bank counsel to the lender in a $24 million loan for the construction of a global technology company’s manufacturing facility.
- Represented the administrative agent in a $32 million renovation loan to finance two hotels in Texas, both operated by a luxury global hotel flag.
- Served as bank counsel to the lender for more than $30 million in various asset-backed credit facilities (e.g., term loans, revolving credit, capital expenditures) for a regional oil and gas distribution company.
- Represented the lender in a $88 million construction loan for a large mixed-use development in Denver, Colorado, secured by real estate and tax increment financing (TIF) revenues.
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
Community
Refugee Support Services
- Secretary, Board of Directors
