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Ms. Gruber is a Shareholder in Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. Based in the Denver office, she works with the firm�s Real Estate and Corporate & Business groups. Her practice involves complex commercial transactions in several industries, with a special focus on the real estate industry. Since moving her practice from Chicago to Denver in 1998, Ms. Gruber's experience has included the structuring, negotiation and documentation of investments, acquisitions, financings and dispositions of business entities in both local and national markets. Ms. Gruber�s case types include a wide range of transactions. She has represented a large New York-based real estate investment fund in all aspects of the acquisition and disposition of large, full-service hotels throughout the United States. She has engineered the structuring and formation of partnerships and limited liability companies as vehicles for real estate and business investments for private equity funds. She has represented a seller/tenant in a $176-million sale-leaseback transaction involving 15 sites in four states. Ms. Gruber has represented real estate investment funds and institutional lenders in commercial real estate mortgage loan and mezzanine loan transactions. She has also represented a hospitality borrower in connection with the consolidation and restructuring of a $190-million loan portfolio, a nationwide owner and operator of health clubs in connection with club acquisitions, financing, development and operations and a range of regional and national real estate development clients in connection with the acquisition, financing, development, leasing and disposition of varied commercial real estate properties. Ms. Gruber has also represented a Denver-based developer of environmentally impacted properties in a 50-acre mixed-use, transit-oriented redevelopment of a former industrial site in Denver. She has served as ongoing representative for several business entities in a variety of contexts, including the development of strategic partnerships and the creation of employment agreements with complex incentive plans for senior personnel. | 