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Mortgage lenders, loan servicers, and borrowers frequently require creative and timely responses to market conditions and regulatory changes, as well as to issues related to unusual property conditions. Meeting these challenges requires guidance from lawyers with real estate acumen, industry insight, and extensive finance experience. Dickinson Wright delivers all three, providing proactive advice to both borrowers and lenders in all aspects of real estate financing transactions.
With offices across the United States and in Canada, our real estate finance lawyers represent borrowers and lenders in each market and across borders, helping them navigate all aspects of even the most complex financing transactions. All told, we have advised on thousands of secured loans representing billions of dollars. Our clients include:
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Comprehensive Finance Counsel
The collective experience of our real estate finance team in banking and finance, CMBS loans, insurance, workouts and restructurings, insolvency, and tax allows us to provide strategic counsel at each phase of the deal and in every kind of loan arrangement, including:
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In structuring those transactions, we have handled a variety of properties, including:
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We also counsel lenders on licensing and regulatory compliance, negotiate correspondent relationships, and implement and manage national lending programs, including 50-state-compliant loan documentation.
Troubled Loans & Dispute Resolution
When financing transactions go awry, close collaboration between the lawyers in our real estate, financial services, creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, and litigation practices enable us to readily assist our clients, no matter the issue at stake. We discreetly pursue the best route to resolve them, including negotiation, arbitration, and mediation, where possible. When traditional courtroom litigation becomes necessary, our lawyers appear in state, provincial, and federal courts and dispute resolution forums to pursue and protect our clients’ interests.
Cost-effective Services
We have developed our own sophisticated transaction management and document automation software to deliver cost-effective service. This proprietary tool keeps our clients up to date on their files while enabling us to efficiently and economically prepare loan and loan-related documents. Dickinson Wright has earned a solid reputation for rendering first-rate, responsive service at far more reasonable rates than those of many other law firms serving the financial market. Additionally, we offer alternative fee structures, including fixed-fee arrangements, as we strive to provide the best value to our clients in every engagement.
