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Jeffrey Temple
Led team representing Mori Trust in its $1 billion investment in 245 Park Avenue
Is advisor to CGI Merchant Group and its CGI Hospitality Opportunity Fund I, LP
Jeffrey Temple is the co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s U.S. Real Estate Group and a member of the firm’s Distressed Real Estate Group. He has over 40 years of experience representing a broad spectrum of clients, making investments in, acquiring, financing, developing, operating, and selling large commercial real estate assets. He regularly advises institutional lenders, private equity investors, investment fund sponsors, REITs, foreign investors, and family offices.
Temple handles complex, multi-tiered finance transactions and credit facilities of all types, including transactions involving the acquisition and disposition of real estate assets and the acquisition and sale of loans and loan portfolios.
Temple led the U.S. Real Estate Group in representing Mori Trust in its nearly $1 billion investment in 245 Park Avenue. He is also the key real estate advisor to CGI Merchant Group. In this role, he assists the client with the launch of CGI Hospitality Opportunity Fund I, LP, a fund seeking $650 million to acquire and develop hotels on the Hilton platform across North America.
This is why Jeffrey Temple received Connect CRE’s 2024 National Lawyers in Real Estate Award. The award celebrates real estate attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their practice and the larger community.
