For over 30 years, Leslie has concentrated her practice on business and transactional law, with a particular focus on sophisticated commercial transactions. She has closed hundreds of financing matters, including multi-property and multistate financings, national and local financings, construction financing, commercial and asset-based lending, secured and unsecured lines of credit, loan participations, and syndications, ranging from several million to almost a billion dollars. Leslie’s finance practice also encompasses national real estate and corporate workout and restructuring transactions.
Leslie represents lenders, including financial institutions, private investors, and commercial mortgage companies; developers and operators, ranging from individuals to small businesses to middle-market companies; and international corporations in all aspects of financing, real estate acquisition, sales, development, commercial leasing, ground leasing, and sale-leasebacks of varying levels of complexity.
Recently, Leslie represented a distressed, real estate–heavy operator facing foreclosure in a fast-moving, multisite, triple net (NNN) sale-leaseback and restructuring transaction. She structured an environmental remediation holdback and a blanket lease for multiple locations, allowing for company liquidity while preserving the company’s operating control and providing investor returns.
Leslie also advises on mergers and acquisitions, equity transactions, venture capital financings, and affordable housing and community development projects.