Jason S. Rozes

• A bank syndicate in connection with the US$2.85 billion refinancing of The Spiral, a new trophy office tower in New York City, where the loan marks the first major single-asset, single-borrower (SASB) CMBS deal of its kind in 2025.
  
• Two US banks in connection with the US$3.5 billion refinancing of the iconic Rockefeller Center complex in Midtown Manhattan, where the loan represented the largest CMBS transaction since 2022 and the largest CMBS loan for a single office property as of October 2024.
  
• A US bank syndicate in connection with US$340 million financing secured by four luxury hotels located in New York, New York, Santa Barbara, California and Los Cabos, Mexico, where the loan was later securitized in a pool transaction.
• A US and European bank syndicate in connection with US$675 million refinancing secured by 43-story class A office building located in New York, New York, where the loan was later securitized in a single-asset, stand-alone transaction.
• A US and European bank syndicate in connection with US$440 million refinancing secured by residential/retail mixed-use property located in New York, New York, where the loan was later securitized in a single-asset, stand-alone transaction.
• A US bank in connection with US$175 million mortgage and mezzanine financing secured by single-tenant retail building located in New York, New York, where the mezzanine loan was later sold to a third-party US financial institution.
• A US and European bank syndicate in connection with US$760 million acquisition financing secured by five regional shopping malls located in Ohio, California and Washington, where the loan was later securitized in a single-asset, stand-alone transaction.
• A US and European bank syndicate in connection with US$1.4 billion refinancing secured by a super-regional shopping mall located in Minnesota, which has been publicly recognized as the number one shopping destination in the United States.
• A European financial institution in connection with purchase of US$61.5 million pari-passu interest in US$127 million financing secured by mixed use office and retail property located in Florida.
• A US bank in connection with purchase of US$75 million pari-passu interest in US$398.9 million financing secured by 113 industrial properties located in California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Oregon and Texas.
• A US and European financial institution syndicate in connection with US$155 million loan secured by a hotel-casino resort complex located in Aruba, where the loan was later participated and a portion was securitized in a pool transaction.
• A US bank in connection with US$85 million acquisition financing secured by hotel resort property located on Paradise Island, Bahamas.
• A US bank in connection with New York law structured finance issues pertaining to origination of £330 million pound sterling financing of 20 hotels and conference centers located in the United Kingdom.

Includes matters handled at Dechert or prior to joining the firm.

• Real Estate: Finance — Pennsylvania — Chambers USA
• Real Estate Finance — The Legal 500 US
• Seramount

• Diving Into the C-Pace Primer — CREFC's Sustainability Initiative, webinar (February 13, 2025)
• Green is the New Gold: Financing the Sustainability Transition — CREFC Annual June Conference 2024, New York, NY (June 12, 2024)
  
• All Eyes on California’s “First-in Nation”: Climate Disclosure Requirements — Hosted by CRE Finance Council's Sustainability Initiative, Webinar (April 4, 2024)
  
• Afternoon Keynote Interview with Brooke Guven, Head of ESG and Sustainability and Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management  — iGlobal Forum, New York, NY (October 10, 2023)
• ESG: Current Talking Points in the U.S. and the UK/EU — Dechert Webinar (May 16, 2023)
  
• Financing Sustainability: Cracking the C-PACE Code — CRE Finance Council's Sustainability Summit 2023, New York, NY (May 2, 2023)
• NYC's Carbon Emissions Law: Lessons Learned So Far and the Countdown to 2024 — CRE Finance Council's After-Work Seminar, New York, NY (December 1, 2022)
• Climate, Courts, and CRE: Will the SEC Climate Rule Survive? — Hosted by CREFC's Sustainability Initiative, Webinar (October 21, 2022)
  
• Will C-PACE Make CRE Greener? An Assessment and Forecast — Hosted by CREFC's Sustainability Initiative, Webinar (April 13, 2022)
• Climate Change and the Commercial Real Estate Industry — Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Real Estate Institute 2021, Virtual Conference (December 3, 2021)
  
• ESG and the Capital Markets — NYU's 54th Annual Capital Markets Conference, New York, NY (November 16, 2021)
  
• Climate Change 101 – Science and Physical Impacts on Planet Earth — CRE Finance Council Annual Conference, Virtual Conference (June 17, 2021)
  
• Great Expectations: Achieving ESG Objectives in CRE — CRE Finance Council Annual Conference, Virtual Conference (June 16, 2021)
  
• Climate Change – Science and Physical Impacts on Planet Earth – Part 2 — CRE Finance Council, Webinar (May 26, 2021)
  
• Beyond the Acronyms: What ESG Means for the CRE Markets — CRE Finance Council, Webinar (April 30, 2021)
  
• Climate Change – Science and Physical Impacts on Planet Earth – Part 1 — CRE Finance Council, Webinar (April 14, 2021)
  
• Negotiating Reserve Provisions in Real Estate Loan Transactions — Strafford, Webinar (February 8, 2017)
• Structural Considerations for Ground Lease Financings: What Lenders Want and Why — PBI's 20th Annual Real Estate Institute, Philadelphia, PA (December 9, 2016)
• Follow the Money! Negotiating Cash Management Waterfalls and Reserves in Complex Real Estate Finance Transactions — PBI's 18th Annual Real Estate Institute, Philadelphia, PA (December 4, 2014)
• Commercial Real Estate Mezzanine Lending: Current Structural Features, Loan Document Concepts and Intercreditor Issues — PBI's 17th Annual Real Estate Institute, Philadelphia, PA (December 5, 2013)
• Post-Closing Obligations in Complex Real Estate Transactions - Dechert Webinar (May 14, 2013) 
• CMBS 2.0 Commercial Real Estate Loans in 2012: Issues, Trends & Observations — PBI's 16th Annual Real Estate Institute, Philadelphia, PA (December 5, 2012)
• Building the Capital Stack for Commercial Real Estate in 2012 and Beyond: The New Normal — Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia, PA (April 23, 2012)
• Refinancing Commercial Loans in 2011: Problems, Pitfalls and Opportunities — PBI's A Day on Real Estate, Philadelphia, PA (August 2, 2011)
  
• Refinancing Commercial Loans in 2011: Problems, Pitfalls and Opportunities — 14th Annual Real Estate Institute Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (December 3, 2010)
• Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic — Presented by The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (November 1, 2010)
• Building a Better or Just a More Complicated Loan? — MBA Special Interest Conference, Chicago, IL (May 4, 2005) 

• CREFC C-PACE Primer — CRE Finance Council (January 9, 2025)
• SEC Passes Gentler Climate-Risk Rules — Commercial Mortgage Alert (March 8, 2024)
• Through the Green Looking-Glass: A Lender's Guide to New York City's Local Law 97 — Lexology (reprint - October 5, 2023)
• Real Estate Lenders Consider Refusing Loans on ESG Grounds — FUNDfire (October 4, 2023)
• C-PACE Shop Targets Other Lenders — Commercial Mortgage Alert (May 12, 2023) 
• SEC's ESG, Climate Rules Stir Up Questions for Real Asset Managers  — FUNDfire (March 1, 2023)
• Regulatory Round-up: Climate Risk Exposures — SEC, Congress, Commercial Mortgage Alert (January 6, 2023)
• Regulatory Round-up: Climate Risk Disclosures — SEC, Congress, Commercial Mortgage Alert (August 19, 2022)
  
• CREFC Advances Climate Agenda — Commercial Mortgage Alert (April 2022)
• Opening Seen for C-PACE Allowances — Commercial Mortgage Alert (May 2021)
  
• My Weekday Workout: 'On Those Difficult Mornings, I Think of the Saying "The Worst Workout Is the One You Don’t Do,"' Says Jason Rozes of Dechert — Law.com (May 2021)