Assisted borrower with refinancing of mixed use and office properties at 1530 16th Street and 1555 Blake Street in Denver, Colorado. The transaction involved a $48,000,000 loan made by a life insurance company lender.

Counsel to Full House Resorts, Inc. in the issuance of $100 million in senior secured notes, proceeds of which were used to pay in full existing first-lien and second-lien credit facilities.

Represented lender in loans secured by manufactured housing communities in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.

Represented a Denver-based real estate investment company in the acquisition of 200,000 square foot high-rise core and shell office development in Austin, Texas.

Represents First National Denver in modifications and workouts of delinquent loans, and disposition of REO assets in California and Colorado.

Provided real estate diligence in support of litigation to open the Torcido Creek road as means of access to Taylor Ranch property for beneficiaries of Colorado Supreme Court decree in the landmark case of Lobato v. Taylor, 70 P.3d 1152 (Colo. 2003), which confirmed rights of descendants of Mexican settlers to access to land under Spanish land grant of 1884 and confirmed in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican/American war.

Counsel to Riviera Holdings Corporation, a Las Vegas casino operator and a portfolio asset of Starwood Capital Group, in the sale of the stock of Riviera Black Hawk, Inc. (the owner of Riviera's Black Hawk, Colorado casino) to an affiliate of Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc., in a transaction valued at $76 million.

Counsel to Graham Packaging Company, L.P. in a $568 million strategic acquisition of another manufacturer and supplier. In the transaction, Graham Packaging Company acquired all of the limited partnership units of the target company from the company's limited partners and all of the stock of each of the company's three corporate general partners from their stockholders. A manufacturer and supplier of technology-based, customized blow molded plastic containers for the branded food and beverage, household, personal care/specialty and automotive lubricants product categories, Graham Packaging Company is a portfolio company of Blackstone Capital Group.

Represented the owner of a GSA leased building with acquisition and permanent financing of the site, lease extension with the GSA, and eventual sale of building with assumption of the existing loan by a REIT purchaser.

Represented a Denver-based diversified Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) in the negotiation, acquisition and closing of a sole tenant office building valued at more than $51 million and located in Princeton, New Jersey.

Represented the developer in the acquisition of a vacant hotel, obtaining entitlements for redevelopment of the site as a mixed-use (residential/retail), transit-oriented development; resolution of title matters; construction financing; leasing of retail space and eventual $60.9 million sale of the project in Denver, CO.