Weber, Jason

Michael Waters is Of Counsel in the Firm’s Real Estate Department, where he focuses on commercial real estate matters.  Mr. Waters has extensive experience in acquisitions, development, commercial leasing and joint ventures.

Mr. Waters’ practice involves counseling institutional investors and lenders, real estate opportunity funds, and private developers on all aspects of their real estate-related business, with an emphasis on complex debt restructurings and workouts of senior and mezzanine loans and equity investments, including the acquisition and disposition of distressed loans and real estate assets.  Mr. Waters has particular expertise in the negotiation of intercreditor and participation agreements and the complex inter-lender issues arising in distressed real estate projects. 

Mr. Waters also advises securitized mortgage borrowers and lenders in analyzing and renegotiating their rights and liabilities under the securitization and servicing documents, including the relationships between borrowers, lenders and special servicers, and the role of the controlling holder class, as well as strategies for acquiring control of the loan pool. 

Mr. Waters is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut.

Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Waters was Counsel in the real estate department at Dickstein Shapiro LLP and has been associated with several other major law firms in New York City.