Sam Barfoot is a transactional real estate and finance lawyer. He represents real estate investment trusts, emerging growth companies, private equity funds, and institutional, entrepreneurial and developer clients in their business ventures covering nearly every asset class. Sam’s clients rely on his experience and his approach to their commercial real estate transactions, which range from acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, and development to corporate restructurings, joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, and complex debt and equity financings. He has deep experience representing clients in their most sophisticated and complex secured and unsecured REIT and corporate credit facilities, agency financings, and commercial and private financings including the acquisition of junior and senior debt.

Sam spent the early part of his career as a litigator representing business clients and commercial real estate clients in complex cases and in nearly every type of dispute resolution proceeding. Sam has served as lead counsel winning dozens of bench trials in state court, and has served as co-counsel and argued before several other state and federal courts, in arbitration and mediation proceedings, and before various administrative agencies including in property assessment and tax appeals covering agricultural, commercial and industrial classes. Sam’s early but extensive litigation experience better positions him to advise and navigate his clients through their corporate and real estate-centric projects, from the negotiation phase and throughout a project’s lifespan.

EXPERIENCE

• A public REIT in connection with US$495 million Fannie Mae Credit Facility secured by two dozen properties across ten states.
• A Real estate development company in connection with a US$300 million construction financing comprised of senior and mezzanine debt.
• A nearly US$400 million sale of a logistics park on behalf of a subsidiary of a Korean-based parent and management company- which sale required creative structuring to satisfy U.S. and Korean regulations and interests
• Purchasers, sellers and developers of all types of assets (including office, multi-family, manufactured home communities, retail and other types).
• Landlords and tenants in connection with national and international leasing matters and property management matters.