Article 03.12.24
Insolvency Issues in Real Estate
Pillsbury insights on insolvency-related solutions, obstacles and precedents for owners, landlords and lenders to consider.
Christian Buerger, a Pillsbury partner and Washington, DC, Real Estate practice leader, is skilled in closing complex real estate transactions across the U.S.
Christian advises a broad range of clients on leasing arrangements, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financing and REITs. He represents both landlords and tenants in lease transactions involving office, retail and mixed-use facilities, and skillfully navigates the complexities of build-to-suit deals and sale-leaseback arrangements. Christian’s deep experience includes counseling institutional investors on transactions involving portfolios of large-scale properties, advising organizations outside the real estate industry on the purchase of headquarters sites and handling financing work.
Representative Experience
- Represented multiple national and regional developers in the leasing of their portfolios in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, including multiple anchor leases to professional service firms.
- Advised a national media company in the assembly, sale and leaseback of its former headquarters and its acquisition of a new headquarters property.
- Represented a public REIT in the acquisition and development of a mixed-use project, including the negotiation of a $150 million construction loan.
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- Represented multiple public companies as their national leasing counsel.
- Represented a mid-Atlantic developer in the acquisition and subsequent disposition of its Washington, DC, metropolitan area portfolio.
- Represented a financial institution in the disposition of its real-estate-owned portfolio in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.
- Represented a public REIT in the purchase of multiple shopping centers in the mid-Atlantic region.
- Represented a public REIT in the purchase and leaseback, and subsequent financing, of multiple properties across the United States.
- Represented an investor in negotiating a joint venture agreement with a developer and subsequently acquiring an option in a development site.
- Represented a real estate developer in negotiating multiple joint ventures with investors.
Professional Highlights
- Recognized by Best Lawyers (published by BL Rankings LLC), Real Estate Law (2021 – 2024).
- Urban Land Institute Washington Case Study Committee. Co-chair.
- The Legal 500 U.S., Real Estate (2012)
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- Blog Posts
- “Pandemic Does Not Satisfy Lease’s Casualty Clause Court Finds,” Pillsbury’s Gravel2Gavel, April 1, 2021.
Education
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J.D., Harvard Law School, 1996
cum laudeA.B., Princeton University, 1993
Admissions
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District of Columbia
Virginia