Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman's Global Hospitality Group (CWSG), serving as
exclusive advisor to FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated (NYSE: FCH), has arranged a $212 million
floating-rate financing for a nine-hotel portfolio aggregating approximately 2,500 rooms.
CWSG professionals Mark Gordon, Jared Kelso, Alison Tan and Ernest Lee represented FelCor in
arranging the financing.
According to Mark Gordon, a CWSG executive vice president and head of the firm's U.S. Hotel
Group, "Our team was able to help structure this unique transaction on an expedited
timeline, allowing our client to exceed its expectations by consolidating multiple maturing
loans and reducing their overall cost of borrowing."
Furthermore, Mr. Gordon comments, "The portfolio of five Embassy Suites and four
Sheraton hotels generated strong interest from the lending community as a result of FelCor's
exceptional sponsorship, the geographic diversity of the assets, the strong quality of the
assets and CWSG's aggressive marketing process."
The CWSG Global Hospitality Group restructured and refinanced 23 hotels over the past 24 months
which range in asset quality from luxury to select-service.
The group is currently in the market with several other hotel loans in geographically
diverse US markets and is receiving strong interest from the lending community on each
transaction.
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