Nitya Kumar Goyal
Partner | Philadelphia
Nitya Kumar Goyal

Nitya Kumar Goyal focuses her practice in the area of commercial real estate finance. She represents banks, insurance companies, institutional lenders and private equity investors in mortgage and mezzanine loan origination secured by a wide variety of commercial real estate properties, including office buildings, industrial, multifamily, hotels and retail properties, as well as loan participations, syndications and other co-lender arrangements.

Ms. Kumar Goyal is recognized by The Legal 500 US as a next generation lawyer in real estate finance and is currently ranked by Chambers USA for real estate finance in Pennsylvania. Ms. Kumar Goyal has also been included in The CRE Finance Council’s 20 Under 40 Class of 2025. Ms. Kumar Goyal was honored as “Diversity & Inclusion: Future Leader” in the Chambers Diversity & Inclusion Awards for North America 2022 and as an "Asian Leader Worth Watching" in Profiles in Diversity Journal's Q2 2022 edition. She was also named a finalist for “Rising Star in Finance” by Euromoney in its Americas Women in Business Law Awards 2022 and 2023.

Prior to joining Dechert, Ms. Kumar Goyal worked as an associate in the real estate practice group of another international law firm where she represented private equity funds in commercial real estate acquisitions, dispositions, and mortgage and mezzanine financings for single assets as well as hotel and office building portfolios.

  • Represented a global bank, as lender, in connection with the origination of a US$500 million mortgage loan and US$260 million mezzanine loan secured by 12 properties (including 5 office properties, 5 retail properties, 1 parking garage and 1 hotel) located in Manhattan, New York.
  • Represented two U.S. banks, as lenders, in connection with the refinancing and origination of a US$576 million mortgage loan secured by 13 retail centers and a movie theatre located in Arizona, California, Texas and Virginia. The mortgage loan was later securitized in a single-asset, stand-alone transaction.
  • Represented a global bank, as lender, in connection with the origination of a US$325 million mortgage loan and US$100 million mezzanine financing of four office/retail buildings in Brooklyn, NY.
  • Represented a leading financial institution in sustainable commercial real estate financing, as C-PACE lender, in connection with a proposed Property Assessed Clean Energy financing and syndication in an estimated amount of US$190 million encumbering a Las Vegas hotel.
  • Represented three global banks in the refinancing of a national industrial portfolio of 30 properties issuing a loan of US$590 million with the portfolio as collateral.
  • Represented a global bank, as lender, in connection with the origination of a US$600 million loan secured by 18 industrial properties in 9 states.
  • Represented a global financial institution, as mortgage lender, in connection with the origination of a US$410 million mortgage loan secured by 75 multifamily properties in San Francisco, California.
  • The Ties That Bind: Distressed Debt in a Structured World — Dechert LLP, New York, NY (May 8, 2023)
  • Climate Change and the Commercial Real Estate Industry — Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Real Estate Institute 2021, Virtual Conference (December 3, 2021)
Services
    • Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, B.SFS, 2008, cum laude
    • The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 2011, with High Honors; Order of the Coif; Managing Editor, The George Washington Law Review
    • Pennsylvania
    • New York
    • Massachusetts
    • United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Honorable Christopher C. Conner