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Sean P. Murphy

Sean Murphy has had a career filled with accomplishments in corporate law, commercial real estate transactions, corporate/M & A transactions and commercial litigation. Sean primarily practices as a transactional business lawyer and he has closed merger & acquisitions and financing transactions involving businesses in multiple industries including construction, commercial real estate, shipping, healthcare, chemical manufacturing and distribution, seniors housing, workforce and affordable housing, condominiums, life sciences and medical devices. Sean has represented early-stage ventures, established corporations, family offices, entrepreneurs and non-profits involving JV's, corporate and regulatory compliance, commercial litigation, labor & employment issues, insurance and intellectual property matters. Sean has also managed teams of junior lawyers at various experience levels involving due diligence projects, drafting deal documents, preparation and negotiation of a wide variety of transactional deal documents and real estate loan and asset closings.  Sean began his career in the Corporate and Real Estate Finance departments at Dewey Ballantine in New York City and then served as a federal trial and appellate attorney at the United States Department of Justice in Washington, DC handling cases in federal courts across the United States resulting in a number of published decisions favorable to his clients.  Thereafter, Sean returned to the private sector and to business law matters, serving as Of Counsel at Patton Boggs in Washington, DC, as a partner at an Am Law 100 firm (Duane Morris) in Washington, DC, Baltimore and Miami, and as the General Counsel of several high-growth businesses in the Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia area. In addition to his legal roles, Sean has served as the Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Operating Officer for an SEC-registered investment advisory firm that he co-founded. Sean currently serves as Of Counsel to Ruberry Stalmack & Garvey.

Some of Sean's key achievements as a business lawyer:

  • Advising the buyer/borrower on the acquisition and financing of 32 assisted living and memory care facilities in 7 states ($240MM value), including assets assumed with HUD-insured mortgages.
  • Advising a JV comprised of a private investment partnership and a public REIT in the acquisition or ground-up development of 123 separate assets through which $235MM in equity commercial real estate (CRE) acquisitions was deployed in 2.5 years in assets including Medical Office Buildings, medical research and laboratory facilities, and seniors housing assets.
  • Leading the sale of a family-owned pest control and irrigation business to a private equity firm.
  • Closing a corporation's recapitalization, reorganization and creation of joint ventures on behalf of a large manufacturer of steel molds utilized in the same firm's plastics manufacturing business.
  • Representing a hotel acquisition and management business in multiple acquisition and management transactions throughout the USA and negotiations of ground leases and space leases related to those assets.
  • Closing credit facilities upon behalf of a regional bank providing working capital credit facilities to borrowers in the shipping industry.
  • Representing the developer of a seniors housing facility in Westhampton, NY in connection with a $21MM HUD-insured permanent financing.
  • Representing a California-based student housing investment firm in the acquisition and financing of a $20MM off-campus student housing project servicing the University of Arizona.
  • Advising a publicly traded healthcare REIT based in Chicago, Illinois in connection with the sale of numerous skilled nursing facilities in the Northeast and Midwest US.
  • Representing fund investors acquiring portfolios of marinas throughout the US East Coast and dozens of convenience stores and fuel service stations throughout the Western US.
  • Playing a principal role in creating one of the first ever specialty healthcare Taxable REIT Subsidiaries ("TRS"), comprised of 34 separate CRE assets across the US.
  • Representing the borrower in connection with a $100MM, 15-asset, 20-building portfolio of assisted living and memory care facilities; the transaction involved closing a $75MM Fannie Mae DUS loan to finance the portfolio.
  • Co-founding and serving as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of an SEC-licensed Registered Investment Advisor.
  • Representing the Mid-Atlantic's first genomics-focused life sciences venture fund and serving as transactional counsel to several of the fund's portfolio companies.
  • Counseling a start-up consumer packaged goods business in its initial capitalization from angel investors, leading to an appearance on "Shark Tank" and ultimate distribution of its products in retailers throughout the USA.

Sean's present engagements include representation of the following:

  • a national chemical products business acquiring businesses, assets and operating teams around the USA;
  • a developer of a luxury seniors housing facility in Florida in real estate development, financing, healthcare regulatory and condominium matters;
  • several Boards and Condominium Associations in Naples, Florida involved in the investigation and resolution of construction defects relating to luxury condominium residences and common areas;
  • a start-up data migration software business in corporate, capital-raising and employment-related matters;
  • a Northeast US foundation supporting the establishment of public-private partnerships in educational STEM programs, space leases, commercial contracting, business formation and corporate governance matters.
  • an investor in the Southeast United States acquiring farmland in Mississippi and making secured loans in Florida.
  • a nation-wide MEP and government contractor located in Greater Washington, DC in determining and drafting numerous corporate policies, including its Ethics Policy; and
  • a specialty pharma telemedicine business in the marketing and nationwide distribution of weight loss drugs, hormone replacement therapy, NAD+ anti-aging and other medications and supplements.

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Contact:

207 Broad Avenue South

Naples, Florida 34102

Phone: (202) 329-1654

Email: Sean@SPMurphyPLLC.com

Education:

  • JD, Law Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
  • Masters, Real Estate Finance and Development, with high honors Georgetown University, Washington, DC
  • BS Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Credentials, Boards and Awards: 

  • FINRA Series 65 Investment Advisor
  • AV/Preeminent-rated for Highest Level of Professional Excellence and Ethics by Martindale-Hubbell
  • Named by Best Lawyers in America (Closely-Held Businesses & Family Businesses Law)
  • Member, District of Columbia, Florida, Maryland, New York Bar
  • John Carroll Society Pro Bono Service Award    Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.
  • Board Memberships: The Shooshan Company (Arlington, Virginia) Chair, Board of Advisors, 01/2014-2019; Carmelite Sisters' & Teresian House Center for the Elderly (Albany, New York) Board of Directors, 2011 - 2017, Vice-Chair of Collier County Community Land Trust (Naples, Florida), 2022 - present. 

Charitable Activities:

Catholic Charities of Washington, D.C. and Collier County, Florida; Order of Malta, Naples, Florida and Washington, D.C.; Legatus International Naples, Florida, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Ball Executive Committee and Coach, Leukemia Society Team in Training, Knights of Columbus of St. William's Parish Council in Naples, Florida.