Sonnenschein hires team for new N.C. office

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has hired a group of 18 capital markets attorneys led by John Nicholas "Jay" Suhr, Jonathan Nugent and James Tucker, who have joined the firm as partners to open new office in Charlotte, N.C. The team, which comes to Sonnenschein from Kilpatrick Stockton, includes of counsels Linde Carley and J. Keith Jones as well as 13 associates.Suhr, Nugent and Tucker, who will now head Sonnenschein's capital markets practice, are experts in commercial real estate finance and equity investment by traditional and capital markets lenders. Their group focuses in the origination of CMBS loans to aggregate these into pools and subsequently transfer them into REMICs or other trust vehicles. In addition to traditional CMBS finance, the group also does a high volume of tenancy-in-common, floating rate and equity deals.