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2024 Lawyers in Real Estate Awards

Phoenix & Southwest
By: Amy Wolff Sorter

Jay S. Kramer

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Fennemore Craig

Represented a construction lender in a $350-million credit facility for an apartment developer

Advised a senior living facility developer in refinancing $24 million in bonds for development

As a director with Fennemore Craig, Jay S. Kramer focuses on acquisition, infrastructure financing, entitlements, development and sale, loan workouts and restructuring. He is an expert in construction law and sports law.

Notable matters include representing a national construction lender with the workout, restructuring and refinancing an aggregate credit facility exceeding $350 million with a major apartment project developer in the metropolitan Phoenix area. Kramer also advised one of the largest national non-profit senior living facility developers in the United States in refinancing $24 million of Pima County Industrial Development Authority bonds to develop the country’s largest senior living project.

Kramer is a Phoenix Suns’ Charities and Valley Partnership board member and serves on the Make-A-Wish National Planned Giving Advisory Council and Home Builders Association of Central Arizona. He is also a past board member of the Fennemore Craig Foundation, The Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence and Kivel Campus of Care.

Kramer has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America (Real Estate Law and Project Finance Law), The Legal 500 (U.S. Real Estate), Chambers USA (Leading Lawyers for Business and Real Estate) and Southwest Super Lawyers. He is AV Preeminent Peer-Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbel. Additional accolades include AZ Business Leader (AZ Business Magazine), Top 50, Real Estate Law (Phoenix Magazine) and Arizona Real Estate Attorneys to Know (AZ Big Media).

This is why Jay Kramer received Connect CRE’s 2024 Phoenix & Southwest Lawyers in Real Estate Award. The award celebrates real estate attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their practice and the larger community.

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About Amy Wolff Sorter

I love content. I love writing it, visualizing it, and manipulating it to fit into different formats. I have years of experience in working with content, both as creator and editor. The content I create and edit provides assistance with many goals, ranging from lead generation, to developing street cred through well-timed thought-leadership pieces. Content skills include, but aren't limited to, articles and blogs, e-mails, promotional collateral, infographics, e-books and white papers, website copy and more.
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