Thomas E. Charbonneau is a member of Cahill's real estate practice group.
Tom has over 25 years of experience advising institutional lenders, investors, investment and commercial banks and real estate developers in transactions including financing, acquisitions, dispositions, securitizations, originations and leasing. Tom has extensive experience representing lead arrangers and underwriters in leveraged bank financings and securities offerings involving significant real estate components such as the $5 billion buyout of London-based global engineering group Tomkins plc and the acquisition by Silver Lake Partners and Warburg Pincus of Interactive Data Corporation, which maintains operations throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He has also participated in a number of financings in the energy sector, including the Bobcat gas storage project in Louisiana, a coal-fired power plant in Arkansas, a wind power project in Texas and an undersea transmission line between Long Island and New Jersey.
Tom has represented, or is currently representing, institutional lenders and investors including Ares Capital, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Citi, Deutsche Bank Securities, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS Securities, Wachovia, Wells Fargo, and other financiers in strategic and leveraged transactions.
Tom also advises real estate developers in the purchase, development, financing, construction, sale and leasing of commercial and residential real estate. Recently, he represented Mattone Group in its acquisition and financing of Roosevelt Raceway Center on Long Island with property that consists of 427,000 square feet of retail stores and condominiums as well as in the financing of Springfield Gardens Shopping Center, consisting of a 60,000 sq. ft. Pathmark Superstore, 36,000 sq. ft. of ancillary retail stores and a 400 car parking area.
