Phyllis S. Bean

PROFILE

Phyllis Bean focuses her practice on corporate and real estate matters, including business transactions, complex real estate acquisitions, sales and financing, and commercial leasing.

In the real estate area, she has represented financial institutions, developers, investors, landlords, and tenants in connection with office, shopping center, residential, nursing home, golf course, casino, and hotel projects, including timeshare, condominium, and hotel/condo projects; loan transactions and workouts; construction financing; and joint venture and partnership agreements.

Phyllis’ corporate transactional experience includes mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of businesses, venture capital transactions, and asset based lending. In addition, she has worked on aviation transactions, including acquisitions and sales of privately held and commercial aircraft, and has done all facets of in-house legal work for a major domestic and international passenger airline company.

For seven years prior to joining Berger Singerman in 2001, Ms. Bean was General Counsel for Farm Stores, a privately held company that owns and operates convenience stores and gasoline stations throughout Florida, and during that time also became General Counsel for United Petroleum Corporation, a public reporting company engaged in the same business.

Representative Experience

Represented the successful plan proponent in a series of reorganization transactions for the iconic, 700-room Pittsburgh Hilton hotel, that included our client’s acquisition of all the equity in the debtor. These transactions included: (a) restructuring the hotel’s senior secured financing under BlackRock Capital’s $49.6 million loan, (b) negotiating and implementing a new Franchise Agreement followed by a Hotel Management Agreement with Wyndham Hotels, (c) consummating $8 million of additional financing from Wyndham, secured by the Hotel’s equity, (d) placing up to $11 million in junior mortgage financing from our client as Plan Proponent, and (e) resolving other secured and unsecured claims
Represented a Fortune 500 diversified commercial finance company in connection with a $200 million+ facility secured by timeshare receivables
Represented armor manufacturer in 363 sale of assets
Represented publicly held REIT in connection with Florida aspects of workouts of multi-million dollar loans secured by residential and commercial real estate
Represented developer of hotel/condo project in Bradenton, Florida, including preparation of prospectus and condominium documents
Represented developer of fractional ownership units in Miami Beach, Florida, including preparation of timeshare documents
Represented domestic and foreign entities owning high rise office buildings and shopping centers in connection with all aspects of their leasing activities
Represented national bank in connection with development of consumer real estate loan documentation for use in Florida
Represented national bank in connection with various multi-million dollar construction, term and revolving real estate loans in South Florida
Represented multi-state restaurant chain in connection with multi-million dollar sale of its assets
Represented numerous start-up companies in connection with private placements of securities
Represented publicly held Canadian company in connection with its domestication to the United States
Represented commercial airline in its financing and bankruptcy sale of assets
Represented pharmaceutical company in its multi-million dollar bankruptcy sale of assets

Awards & Recognition

AV^® Preeminent™ rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Professional & Community Involvement

Grievance Committee of Florida Bar (1993-1996)
Leadership Miami
Intern – the Honorable Chares A. Stewart, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Practice Team

Business, Finance & Tax

Practice Areas

Admitted to Practice

Education

J.D., Northeastern University School of Law
B.A., magna cum laude, Tufts University

Prior Affiliations

Brown, Malman & Salmon
Morgan Lewis
Paul, Landy, Beiley & Harper
Farm Stores and United Petroleum Corporation

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