Christina Suh
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Christina Suh represents corporate borrowers, developers, and banks in a variety of complex financing transactions.
Christina has extensive experience structuring, negotiating, and documenting a wide variety of secured and unsecured financing transactions, including agented, syndicated and single-lender loans, construction loans, permanent financings, subordinated debt, and real estate private equity financings across a range of industries, such as industrial, multifamily, office and retail. Christina thinks critically to help clients effectively navigate complex problems, risk management, and long-term strategy.
Outside of professional activities, Christina enjoys cooking, yoga, and long-distance running. She is an avid runner and marathoner.
- Education
- University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 2014); Michigan Journal of Private Equity and Venture Capital Law, Associate Editor; Michigan Access Program
- University of Pennsylvania (B.A., cum laude, 2010); Dean's List; YWCA Young Women's Leadership Award
- State Admissions
- Ohio, 2014
- Guided client KeyBank Real Estate Capital on the documentation and closing of a $60-million senior secured revolving credit facility; secured by mortgages on 11 separate veterinary offices and related facilities across nine different states, the facility includes an accordion feature permitting expansion of the revolver to a maximum credit facility of $150 million
- Represented KeyBank Real Estate Capital on the documentation and closing of a $25-million senior mortgage secured revolving credit facility secured by self-storage and manufactured home properties in Texas, Wyoming, and North Dakota, and including an accordion feature permitting expansion of the facility up to $40 million
- Advised KeyBank Real Estate Capital on the documentation and closing of a $95-million senior mortgage secured revolving credit facility, initially secured by five office properties located in Texas and including an accordion feature permitting expansion of the facility up to $150 million
Speaking Engagements
- “Say What?!: Thinking Through New Loan Document Provisions,” 43rd Annual Real Estate Law Institute, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Cleveland, Ohio (November 2021)
- “When is a Lawyer Not a Lawyer? – Personal Conduct & Ethical Obligations,” Tucker Ellis Ohio Professional Conduct Program, Cleveland, Ohio (December 2015)
Publications
- Lingua Negoti Blog Posts
- “Purchase Price Adjustments Warrant Scrutiny,” Crain’s Cleveland Business (January 2016)
- “SEC Proposes Rules on Disclosure of Employee and Director Hedging Policies,” Tucker Ellis Client Alert (February 2015)
- IFLR100, “Rising Star” in Banking (Ohio)
- “Twenty in their 20s,” Crain’s Cleveland Business (2017)
- Make A Wish Foundation
- Emerging Leaders Associate Board, Co-Chair
- Crain’s Cleveland Business
- Crain’s RISE, Young Professional Advisory Board Member
- Subscriptions Chair
- Ohio Progressive Asian Women’s Leadership (OPAWL)
- Leadership Committee
- University of Pennsylvania Cleveland Alumni Club, Vice President
- Penn Alumni Interview Program, Co-Chair (Northeast Ohio)
- University of Michigan Club of Cleveland, Board Secretary
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
- Asian American Bar Association of Ohio
