Christian Scarlett represents clients in a range of commercial real estate transactions, including financings, acquisitions, joint ventures, and development projects.
Christian has experience representing lenders in permanent loans, construction financings, bridge loans, syndications, securitizations, and restructurings, as well as in the purchase and sale of mortgage and mezzanine loans, senior and subordinate notes, and loan participations.
Christian advises owners, developers, and borrowers across a broad spectrum of real estate assets and industries, including hospitality, office, multifamily, retail, industrial, data centers, and agribusiness. In the hospitality sector, he represents owners, investors, and operators in the acquisition and disposition of hotel assets and negotiating joint ventures, franchise agreements, hotel management agreements, and restaurant management agreements.
Experience
- Life insurance company as lender of a US$197 million permanent loan secured by a student housing portfolio.*
- International hospitality group in connection with the US$68 million acquisition of a hotel in Seattle.*
- Purchaser of a US$129 million mortgage note secured by a portfolio of industrial properties.*
- Data center developer as purchaser of a US$41.5 million development site in Cook County, Illinois.*
- Domestic branch of an international investment bank as lender in a US$74 million construction loan for a mixed-use development in Western Maryland.*
- Limited partner in a joint venture acquisition of a hotel in Sitka, Alaska.*
- Private credit fund as lender of a US$31 million bridge loan secured by a development project in San Bernardino County.*
- Lender in connection with the origination of a US$35.5 million mortgage loan and a US$14.5 million mezzanine loan secured by a multifamily project in Tampa, as well as the subsequent syndication of both loans.*
- Life insurance company as lender in the workout and restructuring of a US$100 million loan secured by a portfolio of retail properties in Southern California.*
*Represents experience with previous employer.
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Credentials
Education
- J.D., New York University School of Law, 2016, cum laude
- B.A., Rutgers University, 2010, summa cum laude
Admissions
- New York
- Washington