Dallas
214.745.5348 Direct
214.745.5390 Fax
jbruzina@winstead.com
Let's Connect
vCard

John Bruzina is a member of Winstead’s Real Estate Finance Practice Group.  He represents a variety of national and regional institutional lenders in all facets of commercial real estate financing transactions.

Representative Experience

Construction Lending:  Represents construction lenders in complex construction financing transactions involving loans secured by new construction or rehabilitation of multi-family apartment complex developments, mixed-used real estate, office complexes, hotels, and industrial buildings.

  • $134 million construction loan secured by the mixed-use real estate development in Sacramento, California anchoring the area surrounding the new arena for Sacramento’s NBA franchise
  • $105 million construction loan secured by a major brand of luxury condominium residences in Miami Beach, Florida
  • $125.5 million construction loan secured by mixed-use real estate within a community development district in Alachua County, Florida
  • $94 million construction loan secured by a mixed-use apartment tower in Nashville, Tennessee
  • $50.6 million Sharia’h-compliant construction loan secured by a hotel development in Nashville, Tennessee
  • $64.2 million construction loan secured by a mixed-use development backed by various economic incentive obligations in Charleston, South Carolina
  • $46.1 million horizontal development land loan as part of the Smiley Water Control and Improvement District located in Denton County, Texas
  • $50.6 million syndicated construction loan secured by an industrial property in Fort Worth, Texas, representing administrative agent
  • $35.6 million syndicated construction loan secured by a multifamily property in Austin, Texas, representing administrative agent

Balance Sheet Financing:  Represented institutional lenders in the origination and negotiation of over 300 portfolio loans, including senior, supplemental, and leasehold financings, secured by multifamily, commercial and mixed-use real estate located primarily in New York City, as well as share pledge loans, loans for commercial cooperative and condominium units, cond-ops, and revolving credit lines.

  • $19.7 million financing of a movie theater in New York City
  • $44.7 million first mortgage financing of loans secured by multifamily properties in New York City
  • $13 million financing of loans secured by three commercial cooperative units in New York City

Pro Bono

  • Advised New York start-up with respect to general business matters, including the preparation of agreements related to the start-up’s social media and web consulting business and its sponsorship of various tech trade events, as well as the preparation of a Letter of Intent and final agreement for the engagement of a host for the start-up’s online talk show, 2010
  • Appeared on behalf of New Jersey defendant in civil court at an arraignment stemming from charges related to the alleged violation of two restraining orders, 2014

Education

  • Michigan State University College of Law
    • J.D., 2007
    • Managing Editor of Publication, Journal of Business and Securities Law
    • Inns of Court
    • Judicial Internship, The Honorable Bill Schuette, Michigan Court of Appeals, 2006
    • Judicial Internship, The Honorable Thomas Boyd, 55B District Court of Michigan, 2007
  • Siena Heights University
    • B.A., Business Administration and Philosophy, 1991
    • Judicial Board Member
    • Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy National Honor Society

Admissions

  • Texas, 2015
  • New York, 2008
  • New Jersey, 2007

Search Tips:

You may use the wildcard symbol (*) as a root expander.  A search for "anti*" will find not only "anti", but also "anti-trust", "antique", etc.

Entering two terms together in a search field will behave as though an "OR" is being used.  For example, entering "Antique Motorcars" as a Client Name search will find results with either word in the Client Name.

Operators

AND and OR may be used in a search.  Note: they must be capitalized, e.g., "Project AND Finance." 

The + and - sign operators may be used.  The + sign indicates that the term immediately following is required, while the - sign indicates to omit results that contain that term. E.g., "+real -estate" says results must have "real" but not "estate".

To perform an exact phrase search, surround your search phrase with quotation marks.  For example, "Project Finance".

Searches are not case sensitive.

back to top