Nicholas J. Valvanis

Nick is the managing partner of Reed Smith’s Princeton office. He has extensive experience representing major banks and other institutional lenders in a broad spectrum of lending and finance transactions with an emphasis on real estate financing and corporate lending transactions. He frequently advises clients in connection with syndicated secured credit transactions, loan facilities secured with corporate assets, construction loan facilities, permanent financings secured by real estate, and loan workouts.

Experience

Representative matters

Representing the owner of commercial property in connection with the leasing of approximately 13,000+ rentable square feet to a major retailer of personal healthcare and fitness products.

Representing a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation in connection with the acquisition of a tiered ground leasehold interest in and to certain parcels of real property located on a military base from the Secretary of the Army of The United States of America for the purpose of developing a research and development office park.

Represented a construction lender in connection with an $88,000,000.00 loan facility to develop a luxury hotel on New Jersey’s “Gold Coast”.

Representing the owner of commercial property in connection with the leasing of approximately 13,000+ rentable square feet to a major retailer of personal healthcare and fitness products.

Represented a construction lender in connection with an $88,000,000.00 loan facility to develop a luxury hotel on New Jersey’s “Gold Coast”.

Represented a corporate lender in connection with a syndicated loan facility that included a secured revolving credit loan in the aggregate maximum principal amount of up to $15,000,000.00, a secured term loan in the aggregate original principal amount of $22,350,000.00, and a $2,000,000.00 swing line credit facility.

Represented a lender in connection with a syndicated senior secured revolving credit loan facility in the aggregate maximum principal amount of up to $35,000,000.00 and a syndicated senior secured term loan facility in the original principal amount of $5,000,000.00, all secured by a portfolio of 14 properties located throughout the United States.

Represented a lender in connection with the workout of a portfolio of loan facilities to related borrowers in the aggregate principal amount of $65,083,119.85 secured by 13 commercial properties, marketable securities, and cash collateral

Representing various pharmaceutical companies in connection with the leasing of space in local office and research and development parks.

Representing a major international private investment firm in the disposition of an environmentally sensitive mixed-use office and industrial park.

Representing a major international private investment firm in the sale of a controlling interest in an entity that owns an apartment building on New Jersey’s “Gold Coast” for a total of $40,000,000 including a $15,000,000.00 seller takeback financing

Representing the seller of a warehouse in connection with the disposition of a warehouse park to a REIT for $42,700,000.00.

Representing a regional medical center in connection with the acquisition of unimproved real property and water and sewer utility easement rights over and across numerous neighboring properties for the purposes of developing a medical office building and primary care center.

Credentials

Education

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law, Newark, 2003, J.D., Member of the Moot Court Board; Semi-finalist in the Nathan Baker Mock Trial Competition
College of William & Mary, 2000, B.A., English