Joanna A. White is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. She is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice. Her practice is focused on acquisition, disposition, leasing and finance of various asset classes, including, but not limited to, multi-family, office (including medical office), retail shopping centers and vacant land (including timber.)
Representative Experience
- Represented a private equity fund in connection with a $442 million acquisition of a multifamily portfolio located in North Carolina
- Represented a private equity fund in connection with a $240 million acquisition of an office portfolio located in Utah
- Represented a national insurance and financial services association in connection with a portfolio disposition of its key campuses in Texas and Florida
- Represented 2 JVs in connection with a disposition of twelve (12) medical office building properties, allocated between two portfolio transactions, and located in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina
- Represented a developer in connection with a $25 million sale of raw land in Florida
- Represented a private equity fund in connection with a $185 million sale of a seven office portfolio located in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania
- Represented an institutional lender in connection with real estate aspects of multiple commercial loans, in amounts ranging from approximately $20 million to $35 million, secured by a newly constructed apartment complex in Broward County, Florida, an existing apartment complex in Wisconsin, and an office tower in Tampa, Florida
- Represented an institutional lender in connection with an approximately $12 million timber loan, secured by approximately 8,000 acres of timber and development property across five counties in Georgia and Tennessee
- Represented a private equity fund in connection with a sale of the historic Ft. Lauderdale Sheraton, formerly known as the Yankee Clipper Hotel, and in connection with the sale of the Westin Beach Resort & Spa, located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
- Represented a private equity fund in connection with its $78 million acquisition of the Wells Fargo Center, a landmark 389,000 square foot, 22-story Class A office tower, with a 9-story attached garage, located in downtown Tampa, Florida
- Represented a for-profit affiliate of the Mormon Church, in connection with a $565,000,000 acquisition of approximately 384,000 acres of timberland in the Florida panhandle
- Represented family office of a Forbes 50 member in $700+ million acquisition of timberland in the southeast U.S.
- Represented a private equity fund in the acquisition and disposition of multiple medical office buildings and surgery centers
