Nellie Camerik is a partner in Pillsbury’s Real Estate practice. She serves as co-head of the East Coast Real Estate practice. With over 35 years of experience, she counsels nearly every type of institutional market participant in the real estate sector, including owners, developers, sponsors, lenders and investors, and represents financial institutions, corporations, family offices, private equity funds, insurance companies and other institutional clients in a full range of high-value real estate transactions, across all real estate asset classes.

Nellie’s broad-based experience encompasses all types of commercial real estate assets and transactions throughout the United States. She advises on the acquisition and disposition of real estate (including in complex M&A, private equity and bankruptcy-related transactions), the financing of real estate assets (including construction, bridge, land, and permanent mortgage and mezzanine loans) on behalf of borrowers, lenders and agents, leasing transactions (including ground leases and sale/leasebacks), development matters (including asset and property management agreements), the formation of joint ventures and the recapitalization of existing ventures, loan syndications and participations, the workout, restructuring and disposition of defaulted loans, and various bankruptcy-related transactions (including section 363 sales and DIP financing).

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Nellie also has significant experience in the public finance sector representing borrowers and issuers, bond purchasers and credit enhancers, buyers and sellers, underwriters and remarketing agents, and various other participants in taxable and tax-exempt municipal, 501(c)(3) and other types of bond transactions, including the credit enhancement of bonds, the purchase and sale of bond-financed projects, and the workout and restructuring of defaulted bond issues.

Nellie’s integrated experience across private capital and public finance makes her a valued advisor to institutional clients navigating complex transaction structures and regulatory environments. She is recommended by The Legal 500 U.S. for real estate and was named to Lawdragon’s 2024 list of the “500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers,” which recognizes practitioners with a longstanding track record of excellence in complex real estate transactions.

Professional Highlights

  • Named to Inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers List in 2024

Education

  • J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1989

    B.B.A., University of Michigan, 1986

Admissions

  • Florida

    District of Columbia