Rafael A. Aguilar
Partner
Rafael has over 25 years of experience representing developers, investors, and financial institutions in a broad range of real estate transactions, including joint ventures, the formation of real estate investment funds, complex acquisitions and dispositions, ground-up development and mortgage financings.
Key Matters
Representative Experience
*Some experience may have been handled while at a prior firm.
- Representing leading homebuilder in connection with a joint venture to develop more than 1,000 acres of land in Collier County, Florida
- Represented family office in connection with real estate investments in Austin, Texas and related land development matters.
- Represented leading homebuilder, Minto Communities, LLC, as borrower, in connection with an increase in the size of and amendment to a credit facility in the amount of US$300M.
- Represented leading homebuilder in connection with acquisition of 4,000 acres of land in Palm Beach County, Florida for development into a master-planned residential community and incorporation into Westlake, Florida.
- Represented New York-based private equity fund, as money partner, in connection with a joint venture to develop landmark property in downtown Ft. Lauderdale, Florida into an Icon-branded luxury condominium tower.
- Represented leading Argentine casino-gaming company in connection with US$58M acquisition of gaming business in Florida.
- Represented leading Argentine developer in connection with US$220M acquisition of land in Bal Harbour, Florida for development of luxury residential condominium project and related US$90M private placement of securities to finance construction.
- Represented European real estate fund in connection with the formation of a joint venture to acquire an island off the coast of Panama for development into a luxury residential resort community.
- Represented leading Miami-based developer in the formation of US$35M real estate fund to invest in commercial properties in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
- Represented leading Argentine developer in US$50M private placement of securities to develop luxury residential condominium project in Key Biscayne, Florida.
- Represented leading U.S. telecommunications company in the construction of terrestrial fiber optic cable networks in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela.