Commercial Litigation
Lender Liability Litigation

Our Lender Liability Litigation Practice is staffed with experienced partners, associates and paralegals who regularly defend lenders. The depth of our experience and talent enables us to provide skilled practitioners that understand the financial services industry, so that our clients receive the representation they need and the efficiency and responsiveness they expect and deserve.

We routinely achieve successful outcomes in litigation and arbitration in various substantive areas, including:

• Collection of commercial loans
• Commercial foreclosures
• Commercial paper and electronic payment transactions
• Judgment enforcement proceedings (including fraudulent conveyance, contempt and installment payment order proceedings)
• Lead bank and participant bank controversies
• Letter of credit disputes
• Money laundering
• Perfection and enforcement of security interests and seizure/sale of collateral under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code
• Premises liability
• Regulatory compliance including disclosures in consumer agreements
• RICO

Our attorneys also counsel our clients about dispute avoidance and help them develop business strategies that mitigate against unnecessary exposure to claims.

Extensive litigation experience in complex bankruptcy, workout and financial restructuring matters is brought to bear for the benefit of our clients in negotiations and litigated matters. As with other areas of practice, our Lender Liability Litigation attorneys use an interdisciplinary approach by utilizing our Banking & Financial Services, Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights, Real Estate, Corporate and Litigation attorneys in order to address the unique nature of each matter we handle.