• Lead and manage litigation teams in complex commercial matters in federal and state courts across the United States. • Represent banks, master servicers, special servicers, CMBS trusts, insurance companies, and other lenders in workouts of non-performing commercial real estate loans, forbearances and discounted payoffs, deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure, note sales, receiverships, judicial and non-judicial foreclosures, and exercise of secured creditor remedies. • Handle litigation and loan servicing matters relating to commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). • Represent financial institutions and special servicers in distressed real estate loan matters and commercial property dispositions. • Manage contested bankruptcy matters, UCC sales, mezzanine loan enforcement, and replevin actions. • Protect lenders’ interests in loans secured by hotels, retail properties, office and industrial assets, multifamily and healthcare properties, ground leases, and pledged personal property interests. • Defend financial institutions in lender liability actions involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, implied covenant of good faith, fraud and misrepresentation, and partnership/joint venture disputes. • Handle complex business disputes involving contracts, franchise agreements, floorplan financing, real estate matters, and shareholder disputes. • Represent clients in arbitration proceedings, including before the American Arbitration Association (AAA). • Represent title insurance companies in claims involving fraudulent deeds and mortgages, quiet title actions, adverse possession, lien priority disputes, and boundary disputes. • Represent landlords and tenants in commercial lease litigation, including ground lease disputes, evictions and holdovers, rent reconciliation disputes, reformation claims, and breach of lease actions.