Severson and Werson

Susan Santerelli joined Severson & Werson as an associate in 1998 and is a member of the Real Estate Group. Her practice focuses on commercial real estate finance transactions, workouts, regulatory compliance and licensing.

Ms. Santerelli served as an extern at the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District.  She is a member of the Real Property section of the California State Bar.

• Participation in asset purchase and sale transaction representing seller.

• Participation in securitized loan defeasance and loan assumption transactions representing sellers of commercial office buildings.

• Participation in project establishing parameters and loan documents for lender offering fractionalized loans to owners of tenancy in common interests.

• Current representation of major residential lender in facilitating settlements of real property partition, condemnation and civil forfeiture actions.

• Participation in planned development projects, including formation of homeowner associations and DRE approval.

• Representation of landlords of small office and retail developments in San Francisco and the Peninsula, including lease negotiation and review and advice regarding tenant relations.

• Participation in several conduit loan transactions representing borrower acquiring major commercial office buildings and shopping centers, including formation of California and Delaware special purpose entities.

• Advice/counseling to automotive lenders regarding complex title issues.

• Advice/counseling to automotive lenders regarding environmentally impaired real property collateral.

• Representation of financial institution in connection with documenting, negotiating and closing commercial real estate loan secured by property subject to IRC § 1031 tax-deferred exchange.

• Current representation of two major automotive lenders in documenting, negotiating and closing numerous construction loan transactions to Northern and Southern California automotive dealers.

• Current representation of several major automotive lenders in facilitating commercial real estate secured loan transactions to Northern and Southern California automotive dealers.