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Amy R. MacSporran

Associate

New York, NY
156 West 56th Street
New York, NY 10019
P 212.237.1177 F 212.262.1215
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Experience

Amy's practice involves negotiating and closing all types of commercial real estate transactions involving properties in New York City and throughout the United States.

She represents developers, owners, investors, institutional banks, private equity funds, hedge funds and asset managers in matters concerning:

  • acquisitions and dispositions;
  • development; 
  • commercial mortgage, bridge, mezzanine and construction financing;
  • distressed debt;
  • joint ventures; and
  • workouts and restructurings.

She has extensive experience with analyzing, drafting and negotiating a variety of transaction documents. In addition, she has experience conducting due diligence investigations in connection with complex real estate and finance transactions.

Representative Experience

  • Represented ULLICO in a $420 million construction loan to the developers (a joint venture of Brookfield Properties and G&S Investors) for Phase 2 of Hudson Exchange in Jersey City, NJ. The project consists of approximately 800 residential units, a Shop-Rite as anchor tenant plus 115,000 sf of additional retail and green space tied to the Sixth Street Embankment, an elevated rail line.
  • Represented SCALE Lending in a $170 million construction loan to Terra for phase one of the Upland Park project in West Miami-Dade County (Florida). The loan will be utilized for construction of 578 multifamily apartments with a 2025 start date. Upland Park is envisioned as a $1 billion mixed-use community, and is being billed as the largest public-private transit-oriented development in the area’s history. 
  • On behalf of Greystone Monticello LLC, a joint venture between Greystone and Monticelloam LLC, worked as closing counsel on a $60.3 million bridge loan and an $8 million mezzanine loan for the refinancing of The Irby, a luxury apartment building in the Buckhead District of Atlanta, GA.

Prior to her arrival at Windels Marx, Amy served as counsel on the following matters:

  • Counsel to a pair of real estate debt funds in connection with the origination of senior and junior mezzanine loans pertaining to a mixed-use project consisting of a 180-room boutique hotel, 350 Class A multifamily units, ground floor retail and adjoining parking garage, located on a ground lease in Nashville, TN.
  • Counsel to a publicly traded REIT, as buyer, in connection with the acquisition of membership interests in newly created entities that acquired 6 industrial properties located in 3 states, and the concurrent negotiation, on behalf of the landlord, of a master lease of the portfolio to the seller, as tenant.
  • Counsel to a collection of publicly traded REITs, as workout counsel, in connection with workouts and restructurings of leasing and mortgage debt related matters across their respective ownership portfolios. Assets included retail shopping centers and power centers located nationally, industrial single-tenant assets located nationally, and office buildings and retail assets located in New York City.

Recognition

  • The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch - Banking and Finance Law and Real Estate Law (2024-2025)

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Education

  • LL.B., Queensland University of Technology, 2010
  • B.Bus., Queensland University of Technology, 2010

Admissions

  • New York (2017)
  • Queensland, Australia