Marc Winters

Marc Winters' practice encompasses a wide range of business transactions, predominantly involving the financing, acquisition, development, management, restructuring and disposition of commercial real estate projects and branded assets. He also counsels pension fund advisory firms and tax-exempt investors on a wide variety of issues relating to the structuring of business transactions and all aspects of real estate investments.

Mr. Winters has negotiated, documented and closed eight and nine-figure deals for a wide variety of clients, including joint venture groups, pension funds, public development authorities, state agencies, banks, lenders, developers and other businesses. For example, he negotiated, documented and closed the $285 million sale of the operations, real property and associated assets of the W Hotel - Union Square in Manhattan.

In the course of his transactional and investment structuring practice, Mr. Winters has gained extensive experience in corporate, limited liability company, limited partnership and other entity formation. Mr. Winters also has extensive experience with construction and permanent loans, leasing, development and management agreements, and secured land transactions (including covered and uncovered construction loans, securitized loans, interim loans, permanent loans, wrap-around financing, and subordinated and unsubordinated leasehold financing).

Representative transactions of Mr. Winters in Seattle include: the Pacific Place and Seattle Downtown Retail Core Redevelopment Project, the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, the Inn at the Market Hotel, the Broadway Market Development, Belltown Heights Condominiums, and Phinney Ridge Condominiums. In the surrounding region he has worked on the Washington Supermall, the Kirkland 405 Corporate Center, Lincoln Square in Bellevue, the Omni Office Building, Rainier Corporate Park, Redmond Tech Center, Kent Warehouse, Chandler's Cove Apartment Complex in Kent, Laurelwood Gardens Apartment Complex in Federal Way, and the Woodinville Plaza Shopping Center. Outside the Pacific Northwest, he has provided significant legal representation on a multitude of development projects, including the development of W Hotels in California and New York, and many urban and suburban projects in Michigan, Maryland, Massachusetts, Texas, New York, Oregon, Kansas and Illinois.

Mr. Winters received a B.S. in Finance, with honors, in 1980 from the University of Oregon School of Business, and a J.D. (Order of the Coif) from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1984. He is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the King County Bar Association.

Before his legal career, Mr. Winters played drums professionally in a variety of musical projects, and he continues to find time to play drums at live shows and on locally-produced CDs.