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Miami Center, Suite 2600
201 S Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33131-4341
305.679.5748 tel
305.679.5710 fax


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Chris Hinsley is a partner in the firm's Real Estate Practice Group in the firm's Miami office. He has experience representing major institutional lenders, corporations, developers, lessors, and high-net worth individuals in a wide range of commercial and residential real estate transactions, as well as in finance transactions.

Mr. Hinsley's experience includes coordinating, negotiating, and completing financings and transactions involving condominiums, apartments, mixed-use facilities, shopping centers, offices, industrial buildings, corporate assets, and vacant land.

Mr. Hinsley has represented clients in connection with real estate financings and purchase/financings, including ground lease transactions, amendments, extensions, workouts, construction loans, and mezzanine loans. He has also represented clients with regard to loan participations and loan sales; effecting transfers of interests in real estate loans with respect to shopping centers, condominiums, mixed-use, and multi-family properties; and covenants and easements. He has significant experience with a variety of retail and finance leasing arrangements; service, management, and construction contracts; corporate filings and agreements; and purchase and sale transactions.

A 1998 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Mr. Hinsley previously worked for Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP's Charlotte, N.C., office as a senior associate in that firm's Global Finance practice.

Noteworthy

• AV® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell

Representative Matters

• Representation of major institutional lender in connection with $100,000,000 loan secured by 15,000 acres of unimproved land located in two counties, involving one of the largest public land dedications in the history of the state of Florida
• Representation of a major institutional lender in connection with an $180,000,000 part-construction, part-conventional mortgage loan facility secured by a mixed-use office property located in Washington, D.C., and subsequent modification and extension of the facility in conjunction with loan participants and third-party servicer
• Representation of institutional lender with $5,000,000 multi-facility real estate and inventory-secured loan to manufacturer, involving amendment to existing line, a new equipment line of credit, purchases of indebtedness, and an additional mortgage loan
• Representation of regional lending institution in connection with workout/modification of $150,000 line of credit facility in order to provide North Carolina real property security for the facility
• Representation of national storage company in connection with acquisition, permitting and development of industrial property
• Representation of various high-net-worth individuals in refinancing, purchase, and sale of condominium properties, including the securing of financing on behalf of an offshore entity-owner and the purchase of ultra-luxury units on Fisher Island and on Miami Beach
• Representation of landlords in connection with the drafting and negotiation of commercial leases
  
• Representation of individuals with negotiation and documentation of zero-warranty transfer of troubled condominium property

News

• Jones Walker Announces Election of Members to the Board of Directors, New Partners, Office Head
• Jones Walker Now Agent for First American Title in Florida
• Jones Walker Announces Three New Hires

Presentations

• "Strategies for Effective Management and Disposition of Problem Assets", March 16, 2010, Weathering the Storm Webinar Series

Publications

• "Law School Reform"
  ABA Journal, Opinion, Fall 1998

Memberships

• American Bar Association