Ervin Cohen & Jessup’s Joan Velazquez and Albert Valencia Named 2021 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries

THE ANGEL, June 23, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP (CJEU) announced today that the Chair of the Practice Group Partner and Real Estate Joan B. Velazquez and Albert C. Valencia were named “2021 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries” in Commercial Real Estate Magazine. This first edition honors notable real estate professionals for “their achievements and accomplishments over the past 24 months and exemplary leadership in their organizations and communities around the world”. Southern California“, Reported the Los Angeles times B2B magazine.

“Joan and Al are talented attorneys who continually demonstrate their ability to deliver the highest level of strategy and service to the firm’s clients, and to provide unmatched mentors in developing a cross-generational team that can effectively serve all major aspects of commercial real estate transactions . “said Co-Managing Partner Randy Leff.

The magazine writes that “Joan Velazquez is a creative problem solver and proven deal maker who never loses sight of their clients’ business goals. She understands that it is her job to mitigate her clients’ legal risks while letting them take advantage of the opportunities in any deal. “

“Clients value Valencia for its experience in a wide range of real estate asset classes, including apartment buildings, office, retail, mixed-use and industrial properties. He regularly represents clients in joint venture and syndication arrangements and negotiates structured finance transactions, including Obtaining CMBS loans, mezzanine loans and preferred capital and helping property owners manage their wealth, “the post said.

Velazquez represents property owners, developers, investors, lenders, contractors and asset managers in connection with a variety of projects including the acquisition, financing, development, rental, management and sale of commercial real estate. The publication adds that “after being more than structured, documented and completed a billion dollars of the financing transactions of the last few years, she supports customers with distressed properties in the successful restructuring of existing debts. In addition, her tax background gives her a competitive advantage in structuring deals so that she can increase net returns for her clients. Recently she represented the borrower of a $ 350 million Building loan for a multi-phase mixed-use residential project in The angel. “

Valencia’s clients include developers, operators, private equity investors and lenders in a wide range of real estate transactions including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and syndications, leasing, finance, construction, remediation and restructuring. Capable of serving customers’ needs, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, he recently successfully launched a joint venture to purchase and finance the 297,277-square-foot Summit IV office campus in. represented Mountain view, California, one of the largest completed office deals in Orange County this year.

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