Kate S. D'Agostino

Kate D’Agostino is passionate about her commercial real estate finance practice. She works primarily with large commercial lenders on a wide variety of projects, including industrial and warehouse buildings, apartment complexes, office buildings, shopping malls and other retail centers, hotels, medical office facilities, age-restricted, multifamily and other residential developments, residential and commercial condominiums, restaurants, manufacturing facilities, and other commercial projects.

Kate enjoys building close and ongoing relationships with her clients, which include institutional investors (including national insurance companies), pension fund managers, national and local real estate developers, banks, individual investors, and other debt and equity providers. She has particular experience in:

• Loan originations
• Multistate transactions
• Project development, acquisition, and permanent financings
• Construction loans
• Syndicated and securitized loans
• Participation agreements
• Joint ventures
• Mezzanine financing
• Franchise financing transactions

Kate has worked with lenders in the real estate industry through all phases of the economic cycles and can also represent clients on forbearances, loan workouts and other modifications, foreclosures and bankruptcies, restructuring of loans, and loan sales. She also acts as local counsel for Connecticut and New York real estate transactions.

Kate regularly participates in industry activities, including those organized by the Real Estate Finance Association (REFA). When she’s not working, she loves travel, running, and retired racing greyhounds.

• Represented The Hartford in $197 million first mortgage loan to national real estate investor for financing of 10 retail facilities in four states.
• Represented The Hartford in $183 million first mortgage loan to national real estate investor for financing of four retail facilities in Orange County, California.
• Represented Aetna in $14 million first mortgage loan for financing of retail center in Illinois.
• Represented The Hartford in $70 million first mortgage loan to national real estate investor for financing of office park in Los Angeles, California.
• Represented The Hartford in multiple first mortgage loans to national real estate investor for financing of self-storage facilities in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Represented Aetna in $17 million first mortgage loan for financing of warehouse facility in Miami, Florida.
• Represented Aetna in $15 million first mortgage loan for financing of three warehouse facilities in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Represented Aetna in $16 million first mortgage loan for financing of warehouse facilities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Represented John Hancock in $50 million first mortgage loan for financing of seven multifamily buildings in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Represented senior housing developer and operator in development, acquisition, joint venture, and financing of independent living, assisted living, and memory care facilities in the Northeastern United States.
• Represented KeyBank in $42 million loan to local real estate developer for a multifamily building in New Haven, Connecticut.
• Represented Wells Fargo in $60 million loan to franchise owner for multiple Taco Bell restaurants in Ohio.

• The Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law (2021–2025)
• Connecticut Rising Stars, Super Lawyers Magazine (2011)