Gina Leahey

Associate

gleahey@stradley.com

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Gina Leahey represents investment banks, commercial banks, life insurance companies, commercial real estate developers and investors in a wide range of financing matters related to the acquisition, development and sale of real property covering a wide range of asset classes. She is well versed in leading commercial transactions including the origination, syndication and disposition of mortgage loans and mezzanine loans and in handling structured finance and securitization transactions.

Gina also serves as an adjunct professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, where she teaches an upper-level business law course.

Prior to joining Stradley Ronon, Gina was a commercial real estate finance associate at both a global and Philadelphia-based law firm.

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Representative Matters

  • Represented global banks, as co-lenders, in connection with the origination, securitization and syndication of an approximately $8.5 billion financing secured by 288 industrial and warehouse properties and 23 office properties in 26 states.
  • Represented a real estate investment firm, as purchaser, in the sale of a $36.5 million mezzanine loan indirectly secured by an office park in San Mateo, California.
  • Represented global banks, as co-lenders, in connection with the origination of a $3 billion mortgage loan sale-leaseback financing secured by casinos in Las Vegas.
  • Represented a real estate investment firm, as purchaser, in the sale of a $60 million mezzanine loan indirectly secured by a shopping center in New York.
  • Represented a life insurance company, as a lender, in the origination of a $220 million mortgage loan secured by a shopping plaza in Gilbert, Arizona.
  • Represented a life insurance company, as a lender, in the refinancing of a $256 million mortgage loan secured by a shopping plaza in Chandler, Arizona.
  • Represented a global bank, as a lender, in the origination and disposition (including securitization) of a $55 million mortgage loan secured by a membership club composed of a hotel, restaurants and spa in Miami.
  • Represented a global bank, as a lender, in connection with the origination and disposition of a $5.4 billion financing secured by 288 industrial and warehouse properties and 23 office properties in 26 states.
  • Represented a global bank, as a lender, in connection with the origination and disposition of a $232 million mortgage loan and $42 million mezzanine loan secured by 13 industrial properties in seven states.
  • Represented a real estate investment firm in the origination of a $195 million mortgage loan secured by a ground leasehold interest in a resort and casino in Aruba.
  • Represented a real estate investment fund, as a second mortgage lender, in a seller financing of an office building in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
  • Represented a real estate investment fund, as a borrower, in connection with the origination of a $198.9 million mortgage loan and a $66.3 mezzanine loan secured by a mixed-use property in Philadelphia.
  • Represented a real estate investment fund, as a borrower, in connection with the origination of an approximately $38.8 million construction loan for a boutique hotel to be constructed in Wilmington, Delaware.
  • Represented a real estate investment fund, as a borrower, in connection with the origination of a $40 million mortgage loan and commercial property assessed clean energy (c-pace) loan for an office building in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
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Credentials

Bar Admissions
  • Pennsylvania
  • New Jersey
Education
  • J.D., cum laude, Rutgers University School of Law – Camden
  • M.S., Drexel University
  • B.A., summa cum laude, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Memberships

  • Philadelphia Bar Association
  • Commercial Real Estate Finance Council

News

Recognitions

  • Best Real Estate Deals of 2023: Office Winners, Philadelphia Business Journal
  • Pro Bono Partnership, Volunteer Honor Roll
  • Township of Monroe, County of Gloucester, New Jersey, Certificate of Recognition
  • Drexel University, Library Celebration Award for Outstanding Service
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