Themes Karalis

Themes Karalis

Of Counsel
About

Themes Karalis advises clients on a wide range of commercial real estate transactions. Her practice focuses on acquisitions and dispositions, financings, joint ventures, and development matters involving office, hotel, multifamily, retail, mixed‑use, and industrial properties. Themes represents real estate investors, owners, developers, asset managers, borrowers, and lenders in connection with single‑asset and portfolio‑level transactions. Her experience spans purchase and sale transactions, mortgage and mezzanine financings, refinancings, loan restructurings, joint venture arrangements, and ongoing asset management matters.

Themes regularly supports sophisticated, high‑value real estate transactions for institutional clients, providing guidance on due diligence, transaction documentation, negotiations, and deal execution. Her work reflects a deep familiarity with market‑driven issues affecting commercial real estate investments across multiple jurisdictions.

Areas of FocusReal Estate
Bar AdmissionsNew York

EXPERIENCE

  • Represented a real estate investment and development firm in the restructuring of a secured debt facility backed by a large mixed‑use asset in a major metropolitan market
  • Advised a real estate private equity fund manager on a joint venture involving urban infill assets and coordinated required consents and waivers from institutional investors to support transaction execution
  • Supported a private investment firm in connection with a loan involving a portfolio of manufactured housing communities
  • Advised an institutional real estate fund on due diligence matters relating to the acquisition and planned repositioning of a fully leased, full‑block historic mixed‑use property located within a rapidly expanding urban corridor
Education
  • J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 2003
  • B.A., New York University, 2000

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