Freddie G. Akrouche

Freddie Akrouche is a partner in the firm’s Real Estate Industry group. Freddie represents institutional investors, real estate funds, public companies and owner/operators in the real estate space. His representation focuses on complex real estate transactions, including sophisticated joint ventures, restructurings and recapitalizations, mortgage, construction and mezzanine financings, and asset-level and entity-level acquisitions and dispositions. Freddie also advises commercial real estate investment managers in establishing and managing real estate investment funds.

Freddie is consistently recognized by Chambers USA and is ranked by the Legal 500 United States for his work in the real estate industry.

• Representation of an internationally recognized private fund real estate sponsor in structuring real estate investments through joint ventures and co-invest vehicles, with both international and domestic investors and operators, in various asset classes including industrial, hospitality & leisure, operational real estate and medical office involving more than $3 billion
• Representation for one of the world’s leading global real estate investment managers in connection with real estate joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, and mortgage and equity-pledged financings, including:
  
  • Recapitalization and minority interest sale through joint venture structuring with a US institutional investor for a Class A commercial office building in Manhattan (including a $850 million mortgage refinancing)
  • Recapitalization and minority interest sale interest sale through joint venture structuring with a sovereign wealth fund for a Class A commercial office building in Manhattan (including a $750 million mortgage refinancing)
  • The equity and debt restructuring of a portfolio of eight commercial office buildings located in downtown Washington, DC valued in excess of $700 million
  • The mortgage and equity-pledged refinancing of various portfolios of industrial real estate assets located across the United States valued in excess of $5 billion
• The acquisition and financing of numerous commercial real estate assets across various asset classes throughout the United States, with total transaction value in excess of $5 billion
• Representation of a nationally recognized real estate investment management company in connection with development joint ventures across various asset classes including life sciences, multi-family and mixed used campuses, with total transaction value in excess of $3.5 billion
• Representation of a nationally recognized real estate investment management company in structuring co-investment vehicles with international and domestic investors for the development of various multi-family and industrial development projects throughout the United States
• Representation of a nationally recognized real estate investment management company in connection with the formation of multiple private investment funds comprised of foreign and domestic investors focused on the acquisition and disposition of multi-family apartment buildings in the northeast corridor of the US, together with representation of the client in the acquisition and disposition of fund assets through “REIT”-compliant structures, including the sale of a multi-family apartment building in the greater New York City area valued in excess of $250 million

Freddie’s practice has benefitted from global experience and perspective from his time working abroad after being chosen as the inaugural participant of Goodwin’s Global Rotation Program. He is also a member of the American Bar Association. Freddie is also a member of the Urban Land Institute, a global organization that focuses on a variety of verticals within the real estate industry.

Freddie is consistently recognized by Chambers USA for his work in the real estate industry. Freddie has been named a Next Generation partner by Legal 500 US in 2024 for his work in the real estate industry.