Steven Coury is a partner in the Real Estate Finance Group at Cassin & Cassin LLP. Mr. Coury specializes in highly structured real estate finance and capital markets transactions (including EB-5 Lending, CMBS origination and securitization, mezzanine loans, intercreditor relationships, participations, syndications, workouts and restructurings, warehouse lending, private equity, hard money lending, and agency loans), as well as joint ventures, developments, leasing and casino gaming. He has extensive experience representing borrowers, lenders, servicers, special servicers, private equity funds, special opportunity funds, and casino gaming companies. Mr. Coury is experienced in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions including acquisitions and dispositions, financing, leasing, partnerships, joint ventures, developments, real estate fund formation, and workouts and reorganizations. He frequently represents lenders, investors, servicers, special servicers and borrowers in connection with commercial loan originations, workouts, and foreclosures.
Mr. Coury has represented and advised major institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Cantor Fitzgerald, Penn National Gaming, Atalaya Capital Management, American Immigration Group, Capital Trust, Citigroup, DLJ, Fortress, CIT and Anglo Irish in connection with the origination of mortgage loans, mezzanine loans and secured and unsecured lines of credit, syndication and securitization of loans, and workouts and foreclosures of loans
Prior to joining Cassin & Cassin, Mr. Coury was a counsel in the real estate practice group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and a counsel in the real estate practice group at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, LLP.
Mr. Coury is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the State of Connecticut. He received his Juris Doctor cum laude from Fordham University School of Law where he served on the Fordham Law Review, and his Bachelors of Arts in Economics from Fairfield University. Mr. Coury is actively involved in the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC) and the Mortgage Bankers Association of New York (MBA).