Alonso Cisneros is a shareholder specializing in Real Estate and Real Estate Finance at Selzer Gurvitch, where he brings a wealth of experience to the firm’s commercial real estate clients. With a strategic, client-focused approach, he is dedicated to delivering practical and innovative solutions in the ever-evolving real estate finance landscape.

Advising on complex loan transactions across all asset classes, Alonso represents developers, borrowers and a diverse range of financial institutions, including commercial and investment banks, regional and local banks and other lending entities. His expertise spans permanent, bridge, mezzanine, preferred equity, construction and split loan structures secured by retail, office, hotel, industrial, multifamily and mixed-use properties.

Alonso represents clients in the acquisition, sale and financing of various real estate assets and property portfolios. He guides both buyers and sellers through every stage of the transaction, from due diligence and contract negotiation to securing financing and finalizing asset dispositions. Alonso’s experience spans working with buyers and developers on the purchase of raw land and developed properties, land assemblages and the creation of planned unit developments (including CC&Rs), as well as development, construction, leasing and asset sales.

Alonso is particularly skilled in guiding clients through the origination, sale and servicing of commercial real estate loans, with a focus on loans intended for secondary market securitization. He has extensive experience with loans originated under the Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting and Servicing (DUS) program and the Freddie Mac Optigo Seller/Servicer program. In addition to his work on loan originations, Alonso advises on loan servicing, asset management and workouts, providing comprehensive support to lenders and servicers throughout the life cycle of their loan portfolios.

He has worked with a broad spectrum of agency loan products, including senior housing, affordable housing, Shari’ah-compliant structures, manufactured housing, student housing, green financing, value-add and moderate rehab projects. Throughout his career, Alonso has closed billions of dollars in real estate financing nationwide and has managed a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, from acquisitions and development to dispositions.

Before joining Selzer Gurvitch, Alonso was a partner in the real estate finance group at a prominent international law firm. Earlier in his career, he served as a law clerk for The Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Alonso is also a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, where he attained the rank of Major and held leadership roles as assistant training and operations officer and civil affairs officer with the Fourth Civil Affairs Group.

RECENT ARTICLES

• “Bad-Boy Guaranties: What You Do Not Know Could Cost You Personally,” Washington Business Journal, June 1, 2025; SelzerGurvitch.com, June 12, 2025
• “Navigating CRE Asset Distress, Under-performing Loans and Workouts,” Washington Business Journal, April 1, 2024; SelzerGurvitch.com, May 15, 2024

RECOGNITION

• Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America^® for work in Real Estate Law, 2026