Frank A. Appicelli

Frank Appicelli concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial finance, real estate, and investments, and regularly represents lenders, investors, owners, sponsors, developers, and operating companies.

Frank advises insurance companies, investment funds, and commercial banks in commercial real estate financings involving acquisition, bridge, construction, permanent, mezzanine and subordinate loans, and commercial credit and asset-based financings involving revolving credit and term loans, letters of credit, and liquidity and other credit enhancement facilities.

Frank also represents developers, investors, owners, and operators in real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, project development, joint ventures, and management agreements. The properties involved in these transactions include retail, multifamily, office, industrial, warehouse, assisted living, senior housing, medical, hotels, and hospitality facilities.

Frank also counsels clients in distressed real estate transactions involving workouts, forbearances, restructurings, deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure, discounted payoffs, distressed debt sales, foreclosures, and bankruptcies. He is involved with properties throughout the United States in single-asset real property and multiasset portfolios.

Experience

Represented The Hartford in a $250 million mortgage loan to a national real estate investor for the acquisition and refinancing of 26 warehouse facilities in eight states.

Represented a hotel owner and operator in the development, acquisition, joint venture, and financing of hotel properties in seven states.

Represented TD Bank as agent in a $155 million syndicated mortgage loan to a national real estate investor for a 700-acre Merrill Lynch campus in New Jersey.

Represented a senior housing developer and operator in the development, acquisition, joint venture, and financing of independent living, assisted living, and memory care facilities in the Northeastern United States.

Represented People’s United Bank in an acquisition mortgage loan to a German pension fund for a historic mixed-use complex in Philadelphia.

Represented a real estate developer and operator in a joint venture with an institutional investor for apartment properties in the greater Boston area.

Represented a construction lender in $95 million construction loans to a national real estate developer for new industrial warehouse facilities in the Southeastern and Northwestern regions of the United States.

Represented Wells Fargo as special servicer in bankruptcy, foreclosures, and property administration and dispositions involving $400 million in commercial mortgage-backed securities secured by office, warehouse, distribution, and manufacturing facilities leased to a regional retailer that subsequently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Represented Royal Bank of Scotland in the foreclosure, receivership, and disposition of a seven-building office portfolio in New England.

Honors & Recognitions

The Best Lawyers in America (2006–2027); Hartford "Lawyer of the Year," Real Estate Law (2011, 2018, 2021, 2024, 2026)

Chambers USA (2003–2026)

Connecticut Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers Magazine (2006–2026)

Lawdragon 3000 (2006)

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Professional & Community Involvement

Frank is a member of the American Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar Association, the Mortgage Bankers Association, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's MS Corporate Achievers, and is a past president and executive board member of the Real Estate Finance Association of Connecticut.

In the community, he serves on the board of governors of the Greater Hartford Arts Council and is a former president and board member of the Knox Parks Foundation.

Frank co-chairs the firm's Real Estate and Commercial Finance Practice and Real Estate Industry Group and is office managing shareholder of the firm's Hartford office.