Norbert M. Seifert

We formed Fragner Seifert Pace & Mintz, LLP (previously known as Fragner Seifert Pace & Winograd, LLP) to fulfill a simple goal:  to provide the highest quality legal services while adding value to our clients’ objectives.  We strive to be as efficient as possible, using common sense approaches that yield benefits to our clients on an immediate, short term and long term basis.  We have attorneys admitted in California, New York, Illinois, Texas, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Representative Transactions Handled by attorneys at Fragner Seifert Pace & Mintz, LLP

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• Acquisition of Hollywood& Highland ® shopping center in Hollywood, California, including 637 roomhotel, Kodak Theater and retail complex for price in excess of $200,000,000. Acted as lead counsel.
• Lead counsel in negotiation of Dispositionand Development Agreements for mixed use projects in San Diego, San Jose, Huntington Beach, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Brea, San Pedro, Pomona, Anaheim and West Hollywood, representing aggregateinvestment of $400,000,000.
• Foreclosure and subsequent sale of1,000,000 square foot office building in downtown Los Angeles, California,representing consortium of banks.
• Lead counsel in negotiating all loandocuments and preparing and delivering Californiaenforceability opinions for structured limited recourse loan (simultaneous mortgage loan and multiple mezzanine loan tiers) of over $1.5 billion secured by operating Southern California commercial real estate.
• Joint venture for remediation anddevelopment of property formerly used for oil production in Breaand Fullerton, California, on behalf of Union OilCorporation.
• Conduit loans for publicly traded mortgageREIT totaling in excess of $100,000,000.
• Sale/leaseback transactions for majorinsurance company totaling in excess of $200,000,000.
• Office and retail leases ranging from 6square feet to 600,000 square feet.
• Loan secured by property in seven statesfunded by Bank of America in amount in excess of $700,000,000.
• California aspects of and preparation anddelivery of legal opinions on enforceability of loan documents to support thepurchase and mortgage financing ($100+ million) of a 60+ story office tower in downtown LosAngeles, and the same for the purchase and mortgage financing of two officebuildings west of Downtown Los Angeles ($95+ million), a to-be-built officetower in Orange County, CA ($57+ million), and a portfolio of SouthernCalifornia office buildings ($27 million).
• Formation of partnership to acquiremultifamily housing properties in south-central Los Angeles for rehabilitation, supported bytax-exempt bonds and Federal tax credits. 
• Representation of both buyers and sellersin bulk purchases and sales of pools of mortgage loans ranging from $10 millionto over $200 million.
• Securitization of $275 million mortgageloan pool.
• Lead counsel for a purchaser of a portfolioof existing Southern California office buildings for over $1.4 billion.