Bill Murray, Chair of the Global Real Estate Group for Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliff, Nov 16th, Noon, Zion’s Bank Founder’s Room
November 10, 2009 Law, Real Estate No Comments
Bill Murray, Chair of the Global Real Estate Group, focuses his practice on negotiating and documenting acquisitions and financing transactions, including substantial work for pension fund advisors, construction and long-term lending, ground leasing, sale-leaseback financing, synthetic leases and development transactions. He has been responsible for the leasing of numerous large retail, office, hotel and resort and industrial complexes and has been extensively involved in the workout of troubled financing transactions.
Mr. Murray’s experience includes representing numerous buyers, sellers and developers of real property, including pension funds, individual developers, domestic institutions and foreign investors. He has been active in numerous projects involving securitization of real estate assets, real estate investment trusts, public market financing of real estate companies and pension fund investment in real estate. Mr. Murray also has considerable expertise with large-scale land development projects including representing lenders and developers in numerous golf course and resort projects.
A significant portion of Mr. Murray’s practice is devoted to representing pension funds and other tax-exempt entities and the advisors to such funds and entities. This work involves traditional buying and selling for such entities, negotiating and drafting co investment vehicles, as well as negotiating and drafting agreements for the creation of investment funds.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Murray was a partner in the Real Estate Group at Morrison & Foerster LLP.
