Mercedes O. Martin is Co‑Chair of the Firm’s Real Estate Practice Group and specializes in real estate transactions, with an emphasis on real estate‑secured transactions, tax credit finance, and equity investments. She serves as Co-Chair of the Firm’s Community Development Finance Group and Co-Chair of the Solar & Renewable Energy Law Group. Mercedes regularly represents developers, borrowers, lenders and investors in the structuring and financing of projects nationwide utilizing low income housing tax credits, new markets tax credits, renewable energy credits and state certificated credits, as well joint venturers in the acquisition, disposition, management and financing of office, retail, commercial and multifamily projects. Her areas of expertise include complex low income housing tax credit transactions involving multiple public and private funding sources, affordable housing and subsidy layering analysis, new markets tax credit funded affordable housing developments, formation of tax credit partnerships, and federal, state and local compliance of utility scale solar, wind and battery storage projects.
Ms. Martin has been recognized as a nominee for the Los Angeles Times B2B Publishing’s 2023 “Inspirational Women Forum and Leadership Awards” by the Los Angeles Business Journal as “Leader of Influence: Minority Attorney” from 2020-2023, and as a Southern California 2020-2023 “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers Magazine.