Andy is a commercial real estate lawyer with extensive experience in multifamily housing finance (Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, HUD), including student housing projects, and representing REITs, private equity funds, and developers in acquisitions, financings, development, dispositions, joint ventures, and loan workouts.

Represents institutional buyers, asset managers and special servicers of securitized portfolios of performing and non-performing real estate assets. Handled liquidation of portfolios through foreclosures, deeds in lieu, workouts, loan sales, loan participations, negotiated payoffs and REO dispositions.

Member and Past Executive Committee Member, Real Estate Section, Richmond Bar Association.

Awards and Recognition

• Selected as Lawyer of the Year for Real Estate Law, Virginia, The Best Lawyers in America, 2019
• Recognized as a Leader in the Field, Real Estate, Southern Virginia, Chambers USA, 2008-2019
• Selected as a Best Lawyer for Real Estate Law, Richmond Va., Best Lawyers in America, 2006-present. A description of the selection methodology can be found on Best Lawyers’.
• Selected as a Super Lawyer for Real Estate Law, Virginia Super Lawyers magazine, 2008-2012. A description of the selection methodology can be found on Super Lawyers’.

Hunton Andrews Kurth

Our mission is simple: To provide the high-quality legal services, together with practical legal and business counsel, that allows our clients to accurately assess risks and rewards and act accordingly.

Our real estate and finance lawyers have experience in commercial lending across the United States, with many of our team having in excess of 25 years’ experience in this arena. We document all types of commercial real estate loan facilities, including acquisition financing, construction and construction/mini permanent lending, permanent lending, debtor-in-possession financing and mezzanine financing.

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has experience in all aspects of complex commercial real estate lending, from structuring deals and drafting requisite documents, to negotiating and closing loans. Our team of more than 50 real estate and finance lawyers provides legal counsel to a wide range of lenders, including banks, life insurance companies, savings and loan institutions, debt and private equity funds and other entities, in connection with the structuring of financing transactions that involve commercial real estate. We represent both lenders and sophisticated borrowers with regard to the financing of a wide range of property types, including office, retail, industrial, hotel and resort, multifamily, subdivision, mixed-use, health care, casino, golf course and other properties.