Stinson recently announced that real estate finance partner John Tucker has joined the firm’s Dallas office.
Tucker has previously practiced at Frost Brown Todd and Greenberg Traurig. He said he was attracted to Stinson’s “reputable and robust” finance practice.
“Stinson’s platform offers a mixture of having a large firm footprint and a smaller firm’s flexibility,” Tucker said. “This was appealing to me as an ideal way to best serve my clients.”
Tucker primarily represents the originators of commercial mortgage loans slated for securitization in the secondary market. He also has significant experience in advising clients on warehouse and repurchase facilities, preferred equity, mezzanine, subordinate, and pari passu financings, as well as whole loan sales, participations, splits and syndications.
One of the most interesting deals he said he has handled recently was a multi-state and multi-property mortgage loan financing with a syndicated tenancy-in-common structure.
“The deal’s complexity made it interesting as rating agencies tend to view tenancy-in-common deals as a ‘credit negative’ in their evaluation of commercial mortgage loans in the securitization context,” he said. “We had to ensure the deal was structured with all of the available mitigants to pass muster with the rating agencies and CMBS market.”
Tucker is the third partner Stinson has recruited in Dallas this year. The Kansas City-based firm brought on former Thompson & Knight real estate transactions partners Ashley Anderson and Erin Marino in June.