Scott Buser
Partner at Mayer Brown LLP
- Role
- Partner Northern California Offices Real Estate Practice Leader at Mayer Brown
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Scott Buser
Specialties: Real estate; real estate finance.
Experience
Partner Northern California Offices Real Estate Practice Leader
Jan 2012 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Real Estate; Real Estate Finance. Leading practitioner to institutional equity investors in bilateral joint venture formation and deal execution. Counsel domestic U.S. and international firms on the acquisition, financing and development for office, retail, multi-family residential and industrial purposes. Trusted advisor to successful private equity fund sponsors, life insurance companies, investment advisers, publicly-traded REITs and banks. Extensive experience advising Australian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean investors with in-bound transactions, emphasizing the U.S. West Coast and interior West, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington. Structure corporate and REIT real estate portfolio acquisitions and dispositions for real estate and income tax efficiency and to accommodate existing mortgage debt transfer restrictions. Major transaction lead counsel on execution of $1.71 billion portfolio disposition (8.2 million square feet - office) for Australian institutional investor exiting U.S. market. Recent successes include (1) closing more than $1 billion in acquisitions of manufactured home communities units) since 2015 for major opportunity and also core-plus investment funds and (2) formation of programmatic joint ventures for purposes of developing self-storage, industrial/warehouse and BFR/BTR and multi-family communities for multiple clients.Experience in advising bank and non-bank lenders in the making of permanent mortgage, construction, conduit and mezzanine loans for the development and redevelopment of retail, residential and office properties. Specialized knowledge in assisting clients with CMBS-loan servicing issues like transfer and assumption applications, portfolio recapitalization transactions and acquisitions of distressed debt.
Education
Emory University School of Law
Doctor of Law (JD)
1998 — 2001
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
1994 — 1998
Skills
- Real Estate Development
- Investments
- Commercial Real Estate
- Acquisitions
- Joint Ventures
- Finance
- Real Estate
- Restructuring
- Real Estate Transactions
- Due Diligence
- Legal Research
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