Amy J. Diaz

Amy Diaz has more than 20 years of experience in real estate law, with a practice spanning investment transactions, commercial leasing, development and lending. She advises real estate investors on acquisitions and dispositions and on large-scale commercial leases nationwide. For private and municipal developers, she works on master-planned communities, including complex development issues and negotiations with regional and national builders.

Amy also represents commercial borrowers in connection with senior, mezzanine, construction and permanent loans secured by real and personal property. Her lending work includes representing commercial banks and other investors. These engagements draw on experience managing both real estate transactions and the documentation of secured loans.

Before returning to Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Amy spent several years at CoBank, ACB, a national agricultural credit bank, as deputy general counsel and vice president and managing counsel. There, she managed documentation and regulatory compliance for secured agribusiness loans to farmer-owned cooperatives and providers of rural electric distribution, water and communications services. She also oversaw corporate matters, including the build-to-suit lease and loan documentation for CoBank’s new 276,000-square-foot headquarters. Amy previously served as general counsel for Western New Mexico University while at Brownstein and, before joining the firm, was an in-house attorney in the University of Colorado’s Office of University Counsel.

• Counsel to Realberry (formerly McWhinney)”, a leading Colorado-based real estate investment and development company, in connection with the development and sale of land in its master planned communities. We recently represented Realberry in the sale of several hundred residential lots to homebuilders in its Baseline community in Broomfield, and The Lakes at Centerra and Kinston communities in Loveland, Colorado.
• Counsel to Community Development Group, a leading creator of master planned communities in Colorado in connection with the sale of a substantial area of land in Erie, Colorado to Toll Southwest, an affiliate of Toll Brothers. The deal allows Toll to develop the land pursuant to a complicated carryback arrangement.
• Represented a Denver-based real estate investment company in numerous deals, including the $102 million sale of the Canopy by Hilton Scottsdale Old Town Hotel, the $616 million sale of the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort Spa to The Blackstone Group; the $70 million acquisition, financing, and development of an office building in Portland, Oregon; the sale of Panorama Corporate Center, a 780,659 square foot, six-building, class A office campus in suburban Denver; and the acquisition and leasing of a 200,000 square foot high-rise core and shell office development in Austin, Texas.
• Represented Cottonwood Residential, an owner, operator and developer of multifamily projects across the U.S., in various aspects of transactions, including the negotiation of joint venture agreements, as well as the acquisition, development and financing of multifamily complexes in Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.
• Represented buyer in $500M acquisition of foreign pension advisor for two downtown Denver high-rise buildings and local counsel opinion for $63M acquisition loan.
• Represented Colorado Heights University, a non-profit private university in all aspects of the disposal of its high-value, 76-acre southwest Denver campus. The 14-building campus included a 1,000-seat theater, an interfaith chapel, a swimming pool, a cafeteria, residence halls and recreational amenities. It was sold to Westside Investment Partners for $16.5 million.

• J.D., 2000, University of Colorado Law School
• B.A., 1996, Muhlenberg College

• Colorado
• New Mexico

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