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charles a. brake (charlie)

Partner

Practice Areas

Commercial Real Estate; Investment & Finance

SUMMARY

Mr. Brake represents both developers and lenders and is head of the firm’s Investment & Finance practice area. Mr. Brake’s development expertise includes shopping centers, apartment complexes, office buildings, office parks, industrial buildings and industrial parks. In the course of representing his developer clients, Mr. Brake has handled all aspects of the development process, including land acquisition, construction issues, financing (construction, mezzanine and permanent loans), partnership and joint venture formation, lease negotiations, outparcel development and sales, and dispositions.

On the lending side, Mr. Brake’s practice includes both front-end loans on all property types as well assisting his clients with troubled assets. As such, Mr. Brake’s expertise involves acquisition and development, construction, rehab, permanent, mini-perm, and securitized loans; sale-leaseback transactions; intercreditor, tri-party and take-out agreements; bankruptcies, forbearance agreements, workouts and foreclosures; and sales of REO and distressed loans.

representative experience

Acquisition and subsequent disposition of controlling interest in the Equitable office building in downtown Atlanta.
Acquisition, development, financing and sales of over 30 grocery-anchored shopping centers in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama.
Office and office/industrial park developments in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
Portfolio sale of 8 Publix-anchored shopping centers.
Acquisition, development, financing and sales of over 20 apartment complexes in the metropolitan Atlanta area.
$94.4 million construction loan for Class A office building on Peachtree Street in Atlanta.
$73.2 million acquisition and construction loan for condominium project consisting of 462 residential units, parking deck and related amenities located in Charlotte, North Carolina.
$22.2 million construction loan for Jacksonville International Tradeport Business Park, Phase II located in Jacksonville, Florida.
$30.7 million acquisition and construction loan for 303-unit apartment project located in Naples, Collier County, Florida.
$35 million construction loan for 432-unit condominium project in Austin, Texas.