Ms Kathleen Wu > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
200 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10166
NEW YORK
United States
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Ms Kathleen Wu
Work Department
Financial Services, Hospitality, Real Estate Investment and Finance, Real Estate, Development and Finance, Acquisitions and Dispositions, Commercial Real Estate Lending, Construction, Distressed CRE Debt Acquisitions, Financings and Asset Management, Land Use and Development, Leasing, Real Estate Capital Markets, Structured Finance and Securitization, Mortgage Loan Servicing and Mortgage Servicing Rights, Public-Private Partnerships and Infrastructure, Real Estate Affordable Housing
Position
Partner
Career
Ms. Wu is a highly regarded real estate attorney with a national practice encompassing a wide range of industries and disciplines. Her deep understanding of the real estate industry stems from her experience representing clients at every stage of a deal. This comprehensive perspective allows her to anticipate potential challenges and develop effective strategies to achieve her clients’ goals and has resulted in a diverse clientele, from Wall Street to California. This broad spectrum of clients includes private and public companies, hotel chains, governmental authorities, investment banks, syndicators, real estate developers, lenders and loan servicers, and entities involved in construction, sale, financing, servicing, leasing, and management of real property and related assets. She has extensive experience with all aspects of real estate transactions, including mortgage loan origination, workouts and loan modifications, and loan servicing issues.
Memberships
Admitted to the Connecticut, New York and Texas State Bars
Education
- JD, The George Washington University Law School, 1985
- BA, Columbia University, 1982
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate finance
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has a widespread presence all over the US with real estate, development and finance chaired by Brett Gross, who is based in New York. The firm is mandated by a large number of prominent banks to assist with real estate finance transactions, and sustainability-related queries. It is especially noted for its skills in commercial real estate lending where it assists with structuring deals, drafting documents, negotiating, and closing loans. On the lender side, other than banks the team also represents life insurance companies, REITs, and savings and loan institutions. Purchase and sale of real estate debt assets including financing, and workouts is also key to the practice. Co-chair Gross is known for his expertise in secured financings and is the leading force in counselling clients on loan workouts and restructurings of distressed loans. In Dallas, Kathleen Wu advises a wide range of clients on real estate transactions, including joint ventures, loan servicing, and financings, while in New York, Peter Mignone and Matthew Halal both advise lenders and investors on secured financings.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings