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Stephen Burr

Chair of the Real Estate Group

Stephen Burr focuses his practice on complex corporate, energy and real estate transactions and capital structures on all types of real estate, including office buildings, multifamily residential (condominium, apartments and senior living), industrial/warehouse, retail and convention centers and sports arenas. He has led development projects, financings, equity and debt offerings, restructurings, sale-leasebacks and traditional leasing transactions on a national basis in each of these industries.Stephen also has over 20 years of experience in the restructuring or disposition of distressed U.S. commercial real estate assets for foreign and domestic investors, lenders and owners. He has detailed knowledge and experience in restructuring troubled senior debt sold into commercial mortgage backed securities pools, and in representing issuers and investors in troubled syndicated real estate privateplacements, including several recent nationally prominent transactions.Stephen has extensive experience and is known throughout the nation for his work in the acquisition or disposition of real estate and oil and gas royalty interests through highly structured, tax sensitive private placements and regularly represents sponsor/issuers and broker dealers in that industry. His experience also includes performing third-party due diligence in real estate and oil and gas offerings. Stephen served in the United States Air Force as a special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) from 1969 – 1973, receiving an honorable discharge with the rank of Captain.