Overview
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 multi-asset portfolios.
Frank is identified as a “Band 1” real estate lawyer by Chambers USA, a compilation of America’s leading business lawyers, and was named the Best Lawyers 2021 Real Estate "Lawyer of the Year" in Hartford. Frank serves as an officer and member of the board of directors of the Real Estate Finance Association of Connecticut (REFA). He chairs the firm's Real Estate and Commercial Finance Practice.
The "smart and effective" Frank Appicelli is a real estate finance specialist. He advises insurers, commercial banks and other entities on matters including mortgage and construction loans and leases. Appicelli also counsels parties in commercial and retail property transactions.