Max Sonnenberg focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions, representing private equity sponsors, institutional investors, developers, and operators in acquisitions, dispositions, portfolio and leasing transactions across a broad range of asset classes. His experience includes large‑scale and single‑asset acquisitions, joint venture transactions, and high‑value real property investments involving multifamily, self‑storage, healthcare, office, and specialty real estate nationwide. Max regularly advises clients through all stages of complex transactions, including due diligence, structuring, negotiation, and closing.
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Notable Work
Real Estate Finance and Workouts:
Represented a real estate investment management firm in complex commercial real estate finance and distressed‑asset transactions nationwide, with a focus on large‑scale office and multifamily properties. Regularly assists in lender‑side loan origination and documentation, workouts, foreclosures, deeds in lieu of foreclosure, and short sale transactions, as well as post‑takeback acquisition and refinancing matters. Work includes structuring and implementing enforcement strategies, negotiating loan amendments and intercreditor arrangements, and transitioning assets from lender remedies to stabilization and permanent financing.
Self-Storage Transactions:
Represented a real estate investment and management firm in a joint venture in connection with the acquisition of a portfolio of self-storage facilities nationwide across multiple transactions totaling more than $500 million.
Real Property Acquisition:
Represented a real estate investment and management firm in the acquisition of a premier 100+ acre winery located in Santa Barbara County, California. This high-value transaction included the simultaneous negotiation of an option agreement for the purchase of two additional contiguous parcels, positioning the client to become one of the largest and most influential property owners in the region.
Medical Office Building Acquisition:
Represented a healthcare company as outside real estate counsel in the purchase of an 80,000-square-foot newly constructed medical office building for $54 million. Representation included resolving construction disputes, renegotiating association documents, and negotiating the 15-year single-tenant building lease.
Healthcare Leasing:
Represented a leading healthcare services company in negotiating, structuring, and executing leases for medical office buildings and other outpatient assets across multiple markets, while advising on the full range of healthcare regulatory compliance considerations that shape such transactions. Provides strategic, business-minded counsel that supports operational expansion, optimizes real estate utilization, mitigates risk, and advances the company's long-term growth objectives.