Yvette Mabbun advises clients on complex commercial real estate transactions nationwide, with a practice spanning acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and asset management. A strategic counselor and leader of Sheppard’s Real Estate Transactions team, she handles a broad range of real estate deals for clients across the United States.
Yvette has extensive experience representing traditional lenders and special servicers and lenders of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) in loan workouts, note sales, REO sales, sales through receivers and mortgage foreclosures in Texas. Her experience also includes coordinating the appointment of receivers in other jurisdictions to support control, recovery and liquidation of collateral for the benefit of noteholders.
Yvette is known for guiding clients through sophisticated deals involving a range of property types and operational considerations. Her transactional work covers a broad range of single assets and asset portfolios, including industrial, retail, office, multifamily, hospitality, resort, condominium, convenience store, mobile home, self-storage and mixed-use properties. She negotiates and drafts acquisition and sale agreements, lease agreements, management and operations agreements, construction contracts, and operating, declaration, reciprocal easement and protective covenant agreements. Her leasing work spans office, research and development, retail, industrial and build-to-suit transactions nationwide, including modifications driven by distressed market conditions.
As a member of the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure team, Yvette has partnered with her finance colleagues to advise clients on conventional and renewable deals, including related acquisitions, dispositions, development and complex leasing transactions.
In her free time, Yvette enjoys reading—from mysteries to classic English literature—as well as international travel with her family.