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Continuing a strong push to expand its real estate team, Polsinelli has hired Tara Darling, former managing partner of Cassin & Cassin’s Dallas office, as a shareholder in the real estate and financial services department in Dallas.
Darling, who joined the firm on Monday, is the ninth real estate lawyer the Am Law 100 firm has added since April. The firm added three lawyers to the real estate group in Washington, D.C., a three-lawyer commercial finance team in Nashville, Tennessee, and two real estate finance shareholders in Atlanta.
John T. Duncan III, chair of Polsinelli’s real estate finance practice and the financial services division, wrote in a press release that Darling brings extensive commercial real estate finance experience.
“Her focus on multifamily agency lending is a great complement to our diverse CRE lending practice,” he wrote.
Brian Bullard, managing partner of the firm’s Dallas office, wrote that Darling supports the firm’s long-term commitment to servicing the Dallas real estate and private equity market.
Darling, who moved to Dallas from New York last year to head the Cassin & Cassin office, said she wasn’t looking to make a move, but a friend in Dallas suggested she speak with Bullard, and she was impressed with how he explained the firm’s vision.
“They have really strategic plans as to how they want to grow and want to expand across all practice areas. They are a firm that looks at sustainability and longevity and makes decisions to fit into that plan,” she said.
Darling declined to identify her clients, but said she will continue to work in the agency lending space. Polsinelli is good for her clients, she said, because of its reputation in the industry, but also because the firm offers a range of services including loan origination, servicing and workouts.
“Also, it’s just the quality of people and the culture here. It’s very much built on collaboration and there’s just really good attorneys good at what they do,” she said.
She represents commercial real estate buyers, sellers, and lenders in lending transactions. She has experience with affordable housing transactions, low-income housing tax credits, tax exemptions, and representing lenders in financing multifamily properties through the Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting & Servicing Program and the Freddie Mac Seller/Servicer Program.
Michael Hurley, managing partner of Cassin & Cassin, did not immediately respond to a telephone message or an email seeking comment on Darling’s departure and the status of the Dallas office. The real estate finance boutique’s website only identifies offices in Phoenix, New York City, and Purchase, New York. Darling declined to discuss her former firm.
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