Antonina Prestigiacomo
Partner
Antonina (Toni) Prestigiacomo has extensive experience representing lenders in real estate loan transactions across the United States. Her work includes the structuring and closing of mortgage loan transactions for conventional acquisition, permanent, interim/bridge, and mezzanine loan transactions. In particular, she represents national health care lenders in their lending transactions with a focus on skilled nursing and assisted living facility loans. Toni is a partner in the firm’s Finance & Financial Institutions and Real Estate Practices.
Additionally, Toni’s real estate practice extends to all facets of commercial real estate, including acquisitions, development, dispositions, leasing, financing, and property management matters. She has represented, among others, commercial lenders and other providers of capital, as well as owners and developers of mixed use and residential housing projects that use the syndication of low-income housing tax credits, new market tax credits, historic tax credits, governmental loans, and grant programs, including HOME loans and FHLB Affordable Housing Program Grants.
Toni’s practice also includes the representation of franchise lenders in their transactions with a focus on quick service and casual dining restaurant financings.
Awards and Recognition
- Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell’s peer review rating system
- Selected for inclusion in Wisconsin Super Lawyers® (2006-2009)
- Named one of Madison’s top lawyers in the categories of Financial Services/Commercial Lending by Madison Magazine* (2007)
- Wisconsin Law Journal Women in the Law award for her contributions to promoting women in the legal profession and to the Madison community (2014)
Affiliations
- American College of Mortgage Attorneys
- American Bar Association
- Wisconsin Bar Association
Community Involvement
- Former chair of board of directors of Catholic Charities, Inc., Diocese of Madison
- Past co-chair of the Verona Road Business Coalition
- Former chair of the board of trustees of Edgewood Campus School
- Former chairman of the scholarship committee for the Rubin for Kids Fund (a local organization that provides scholarships and other awards to “at risk” kids in the Madison community)
- Former member of the board of directors of Gilda’s Club of Madison, Inc.
- Member of Diocese of Madison Finance Council