Morris, Manning & Martin's extensive experience working with both real estate owners and lenders has prepared us to guide and support clients through the current credit crisis. Our Commercial Real Estate Debt Management Practice provides legal support and practical business advice to real estate owners in all aspects of their relationships with their lenders.

Key Services:

• Borrower representation in troubled loans
• Debt sales and purchases
• Distressed opportunities
• Joint venture disputes
• Lender liability
• Litigation
• Non-recourse guaranty counseling and claim defense
• Restructuring debt

Industry Knowledge

Our experience in working with conduit CMBS and similar loans, representing both borrowers and lenders, gives us a very high level of expertise to draw upon in providing advice to borrowers on how to handle their relationships with master and special servicers. Our lawyers advise borrowers on how to conduct themselves and operate their properties to avoid the "recourse" pitfalls in conduit loan documents and defend them against claims by lenders that their loans have become fully or partially "recourse" against individual guarantors. We protect our clients by analyzing questions of possible lender liability and pursuing lender liability claims and advise and assist them in efforts to restructure or workout troubled mortgage or mezzanine financings.

Business Partners

Our interdisciplinary team, comprised of banking, real estate, litigation, bankruptcy and tax professionals, assists our borrower clients in managing their relationships with lenders and their loan servicers, restructuring mortgage and mezzanine loans, identifying tax ramifications related to troubled real estate and working through joint venture or partnership disputes.

Forward-Looking Advocates

With the fallout in today’s credit markets it is essential to have legal counsel who can deal effectively with non-performing loans and financially-troubled real estate and also prepare owners to take advantage of the opportunities that may arise to acquire real estate and debt. Our lawyers can assist and counsel you in achieving the best results in this economic crisis.