Bukola Mabadeje is a partner in the Firm’s Real Estate and Commercial Finance practice groups and serves as Chair of the Firm’s Africa practice. She represents lenders, borrowers, and institutional investors in complex real estate and commercial finance transactions across the United States, with a focus on middle-market financings involving real and personal property on both a secured and unsecured basis.
Bukola’s practice is distinguished by her depth in construction and structured real estate financings, including transactions involving multi-source capital stacks, joint venture structures, and layered debt and equity components. She regularly advises on financings incorporating mezzanine debt, tax-exempt bond structures, and other sophisticated features. In addition, she represents equity investors in low-income housing tax credit and historic tax credit transactions, with experience structuring investments to support affordable housing and the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of historic assets.
Her experience spans a broad range of asset classes, including multifamily, industrial, hospitality, office, retail, and co-living, and includes portfolio financings, acquisition facilities, and development projects nationwide.