W Christopher White

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

One World Financial Center
New York
USA
NY 10281
212 504 6633
christopher.white@cwt.com

Ranked In

New York
Real Estate: Finance (Band 3)

Profile

Practice Areas: Firm Chairman. Concentrates in commercial real estate with emphasis on debt and equity financing. Represents many of the largest US and foreign institutional investors in full spectrum of real estate investment activity. Spearheads firm's representation of investment banks and institutional lenders in public and private securitizations and other secondary market transactions. Handles structured acquisition and financing for commercial properties in Europe and Latin America. Represents institutional investors in joint ventures and other investment vehicles for the acquisition and development of hotels, office buildings, shopping centers. Experienced with hotel and property management agreements, leasing agreements, and structured acquisitions of interests in companies owning and operating hotels, shopping centers, entertainment complexes, office buildings. Experienced in workouts, including restructurings, foreclosures and bankruptcies. Devised procedures for foreclosure by power of sale in NY.

Personal: JD, University of Michigan Law School; BA, University of Notre Dame.