Chris Schrauff counsels clients on real estate transactions and commercial lending transactions. He has experience with real estate secured loans, corporate loans, and asset based loans, as well as leasing, financing, development, construction, acquisitions and dispositions of real property, and loan portfolio transactions. He has represented major financial institutions and borrowers in numerous lending transactions, loan workouts, loan modifications, DIP financing, acquisition financing, mezzanine debt, letters of credit, remedy enforcement, and foreclosures involving a wide variety of collateral.
Education
- J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 1996
- B.A., with honors, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992
Bar Admissions
Representative Experience
- Represent loan servicer in connection with remedy enforcement under multiple loans and foreclosures involving multiple Texas properties.
- Represent lender in connection with $100,000,000 letter of credit facility.
- Represent lender in connection with restructuring of distressed $10,000,000 hospital construction loan.
- Represent retail borrower in connection with forbearance and restructuring of $18,000,000 credit facility.
- Represent private-equity investor in connection with $5,000,000 senior loan and $9,000,000 mezzanine loan in connection with acquisition.
- Represent equity investor in connection with $4,000,000 DIP financing of hospital property.
- Represent owner of mixed-use condominium tower in connection with restructuring the condominium regime and sale of the $20,000,000 residential unit.
- Represent developer in connection with the development, financing and eventual sale of a $72,000,000 Class-A multifamily project.
- Represent developer in connection with the financing and sale of $45,000,000 Class-A townhome project.
- Represent pension fund in connection with the purchase and financing of a $90,000,000 office park.
- Represent national telecommunications firm in connection with acquisition, disposition and financing of cell tower pools and individual sites.
Professional History
- Partner, Locke Lord LLP
- Former Vice President and Counsel, FIC Insurance Group, Austin, Texas
Professional Affiliations & Achievements
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, State Bar of Texas
- Member, Dallas Bar Association
- Member, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Section, State Bar of Texas
Community Leadership
- Member, Capital Projects Advisory Committee, City of Murphy, Texas
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