Rachel S.K. Bates

Rachel's experience includes:

• A real estate investment fund in the acquisition of hotel operating company and fee interest of 200+ hotels together with franchise and management agreements
• Joint venture acquisition of mezzanine debt, foreclosure of such debt and senior mortgage restructuring secured by hotel in Hawaii
• Joint venture to develop a convention center hotel, mortgage financing, public/private financing, and ground lease
• US$1 billion portfolio sale of three luxury hotels
• Acquisition of lifestyle hotel management platform for major hotel brand
• Acquisition through a forward purchase of a four property hotel portfolio in Key West, mortgage financing, refinancing and ultimate disposition of the portfolio six years later
• Disposition of luxury hotels and negotiation of long term management agreements for major hotel brand
• Sale of five-star urban hotel and contemporaneous management agreements for three additional hotels
• Acquisition and financing of luxury hotels in San Francisco and New York
• Leading real estate investment trust in connection with a merger with a non-traded REIT resulting in a combined US$7 billion public company
• Ground lease with purchase option for a to be developed cancer center and medical campus
• Joint venture to develop multi-family housing project along with mortgage financing
• Restructuring mortgage and mezzanine debt and implementing debt-for-equity exchange for golf club operator
• Joint venture to develop multi-family housing projects along with mortgage financing
• Leading real estate investment trust owning US$3.2 billion of property in connection with its corporate restructuring and US$500 million initial public offering equity offering
• National industrial developer in connection with the formation of a joint venture for the acquisition and development of a US$750 million industrial facility for the National Nuclear Security Administration
• Joint venture for the development of a mixed-use office retail, residential, grocery project; along with senior mortgage financing and mezzanine financing
• Sale of Wrightwood Capital’s investment platform to Ares Commercial Real Estate
• Joint venture of a specialized unit of a National Bank with a hotel operator for a programmatic hotel development platform
• Acquisition and financing of a portfolio properties leased to public utilities