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Melissa C. Hinkle 

 
Partner – New York
T.+1 212 504 6972
melissa.hinkle@cwt.com
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281 V-CARD

Melissa Hinkle has experience with many types of commercial lending and other finance transactions, with an emphasis on representing investment and national banks and other lenders in the origination and securitization of commercial mortgage loans. She handles complex financings and is actively engaged in the sale of commercial mortgage and mezzanine loans in the secondary market. Her expertise includes mortgage lending, mezzanine finance, co-lending and participation arrangements, loan workouts and restructurings with a focus on complex real estate finance for the capital markets.

Melissa’s most recent published works include “CFIUS Basics for Real Estate Lenders” (Cadwalader’s REF News and Views, 2020) and “The Mark Hotel Borrower Granted Injunction Delaying Mezzanine Lender’s Foreclosure Sale” (Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, 2020.) She also co-authored the article “Use of Mezzanine Debt in Commercial Mortgage Loans” (New York Law Journal, 2004.)

Melissa received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of South Florida. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

  • Representing the lenders in a $931 million financing for the acquisition of eight million square feet across 53 Class A suburban office buildings in high-growth markets across the country.
  • Representing the lender in a $630 million securitized financing secured by 80 retail properties.
  • Representing the lenders in $1.8 billion financing for the acquisition of over 600 hotel properties from a bankruptcy estate.
  • Representing the lender in a $650 million securitized financing secured by a 55-property retail portfolio during the fourth quarter of 2009, one of the first single-borrower securitizations following the credit crisis.
  • Representing the lenders in a $22 billion securitized financing in connection with the acquisition of Hilton Hotels Corp., named “Deal of the Year” in 2008 by Real Estate Finance & Investments, and in the subsequent restructuring in the first quarter of 2010.
  • Representing the lenders in a $1.3 billion financing in connection with the acquisition of five Chicago office buildings that were a part of the original Equity Office Properties portfolio.
  • Representing the lender in a $54 million securitized refinancing of three resort hotels in Cancun, Puerto Vallarta and Ixtapa, Mexico.
  • Representing the lenders in the structuring, documenting and sale of 11 tranches of mezzanine debt totaling $1.4 billion in connection with the acquisition financing of Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village.
  • Representing the lender in a $2.0 billion refinancing of 13 resort hotels, including the sale of $685 million of mezzanine whole loans and participations.
  • Representing the lender in the acquisition financing for two New York City office buildings secured by $272 million of cross-defaulted mortgage and mezzanine loans.
  • Representing the lenders in the origination, securitization and secondary market sales of $1.5 billion mortgage and mezzanine loans secured by portfolio of 39 hotel properties.

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Melissa C. Hinkle 

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Admissions

  • New York

Education

  • Harvard Law School
    J.D., 1995
  • University of South Florida
    B.A., 1992, summa cum laude
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