A.Y. Mernick
Counsel
amernick@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Real Estate
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
Biography
- Focuses on commercial real estate transactions, primarily representing private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, public and private companies, family offices and other institutional and individual investors.
A.Y. Mernick is a member of the firm’s real estate practice. He assists clients with commercial real estate transactions, including:
- Financings
- Joint ventures
- Acquisitions
- Dispositions
- Development
- Leasing.
A.Y. counsels clients in connection with various real estate asset classes, including vacant land, hospitality, office, multi-family, retail and mixed-use buildings, shopping centers, health care and other commercial and residential properties throughout the United States.
Earlier in his career, A.Y. was a senior associate in the transaction advisory services group at Ernst & Young.
Representative Work
- Represented Colony Capital in connection with:
- its mezzanine construction loan and preferred equity investment to redevelop the Century Plaza Hotel and construct the adjacent condominium towers
- its loan to refinance a portfolio of student housing facilities in multiple states
- its loan in connection with the acquisition of a shopping mall in Georgia.
- Represented Mesa West Capital in the restructuring of the capital stack secured by the SLS Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.
- Aided a family office as it acquired a portfolio of 25 limited-service hotels located in 4 states with a new joint venture partner.
- Assisted a national bank with a senior secured revolving credit facility.
EducationJ.D., University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, with honors, 2017
M.S., Yeshiva University, 2011
B.A., Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2006
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, with honors, 2017
M.S., Yeshiva University, 2011
B.A., Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2006
Bar AdmissionsCalifornia
Texas
California
Texas
Recognitions
- LA Pro Bono Transactional Matter of the Year Award, 2018.
Affiliations and Public Service
- Member, pro bono committee, Los Angeles office, Akin Gump.
