Gregoratos, Barbara

Barbara Gregoratos has a transactional real estate private equity practice that extends to most aspects of commercial real estate law, and involves both equity and debt investment and real estate finance. She has experience in the formation of partnerships, limited liability companies, and other joint venture platforms. She also represents clients in direct real estate transactions, including purchases, sales and financings of all types of commercial properties (including REO sales for national bank clients), and commercial leases, including build-to-suit transactions. In addition, Barbara has financing experience, which includes permanent and construction financing, participating loans, and mezzanine debt.

Barbara's clients include domestic and foreign capital sources (including sovereign wealth funds), financial institutions, property companies, and developers. She has represented numerous fund investors and other capital sources in a variety of transactions, including fund investment, and the formation of funds and joint venture arrangements for acquisition or investment in real estate-related assets, including secured debt.

Barbara was appointed Co-Vice-Chair of the International Investments in Real Estate Committee (a committee of the Special Investors and Investment Structure Group, of the ABA’s Real Property Section) 2012-2013.  Barbara coauthored a chapter in the 2008 publication Inside the Minds: Fund Formation Strategies by Aspatore Press. She was a speaker at the 2011 ABA Annual Meeting and at the 2012 ABA Real Property Section Spring Symposia, in presentations sponsored by the ABA's Real Property Section Committee on International Transactions. She has been listed in Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition and in Northern California Super Lawyers.