Samuel Cramer

Samuel Cramer is an associate in the firm’s Real Estate Industry group. He advises a broad range of clients on all aspects of commercial property including asset and corporate wrapped acquisitions and disposals, development, financing, and landlord and tenant management.

• Advised Medical Properties Trust Inc. on new non-recourse, non-amortizing secured financing backed by 27 of their UK hospitals. The lending group for the Financing is a consortium of global institutional, insurance and pension investors led by Song Capital, a European real estate investment firm.
• Advised Fidera Vecta on the sale of a portfolio of Hoxton and Mama Shelter branded lifestyle hotels across UK, Netherlands, Italy and Czech Republic to entities owned by Ares Management Real Estate Secondaries fund and Cedar Capital Partners.
• Advised client Medical Properties Trust, Inc. in respect of its agreement to acquire a portfolio of select behavioral health facilities, and their concurrent leaseback, from the leading UK behavioral health provider The Priory Group. The price to be paid for the acquisition totals £800 million.
• Advised Clarion Partners Europe on the acquisition, via the purchase of two corporate vehicles, of three warehouses in the North West of England from Mirastar and another leading investment firm.
• Advising a leading bank on an asset acquisition of a 26 property portfolio for £350 million and the subsequent management and sale.*
• Advising an insurance company on the acquisition of a corporate wrapped City of London office for £105 million.*
• Advising a leading property fund on the sale of a corporate wrapped central London shopping arcade for £280 million.*
• Advising on the development finance of a new residential tower block in Manchester with a loan value of £60 million.*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Samuel was an associate at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP in the real estate team.

• Co-Author, “How Investors Can Seize Renewables Opportunities In RE,” Law360, September 2023
• Co-Author, “Investors Should Seize the Renewables Opportunity in Real Estate,” Goodwin Insight, August 2023