CHICAGO, Ill. (September 2, 2014) - Perkins Coie represented client Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE:BEE), a real estate investment trust (REIT) which owns and provides value enhancing asset management of high-end hotels and resorts in the United States and Europe, in the closing of a $115 million limited recourse loan secured by the Miami InterContinental Hotel replacing the $85 million financing previously encumbering the property.

Led by Chicago partner Bruce Bonjour, the Perkins Coie team included Chicago partners Kurt Neumann and Edward Wicks, Washington, D.C. partner Sloane Wildman and Chicago associates Melissa Oka and Jaime Willis.

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