COMMERCIALREALESTATEANDCONSTRUCTION
Tendy Law’s Commercial Real Estate & Construction practice advises lenders, investors, owners, developers, servicers, contractors, and other market participants on sophisticated real estate and construction matters throughout the life cycle of a project or transaction.
The practice is led by Joseph Philip Forte, a nationally recognized commercial real estate finance lawyer with extensive experience in mortgage origination, construction lending, servicing, workouts, restructurings, securitization, enforcement, bankruptcy, capital markets transactions, and the regulatory framework governing commercial mortgage lending.
Our experience spans both traditional and highly complex real estate finance matters, including construction and development financing, distressed assets, intercreditor arrangements, title issues, servicing disputes, and enforcement. We have advised financial institutions, investors, servicers, and other market participants on transactions and problems arising in changing market and regulatory environments.
Representative matters include
- Commercial and multifamily mortgage originations for properties nationwide for portfolios and securitizations
- Acquisition, development, leasehold, and construction financing
- Mortgage warehousing, repo arrangements and note on note financing
- Loan participations, co-lending, mezzanine and subordinate debt
- CMBS, securitization, servicing and special servicing
- Loan portfolio reviews for sale, purchase or securitization
- Workouts, restructurings and distressed real estate
- Mortgage enforcement, foreclosure and bankruptcy
- Intercreditor, intra-tranche, and controlling-holder disputes
- Title, title insurance and real estate closing issues
- Current credit rating agency policies and issues
- Lender liability and environmental risk management
- Regulatory and compliance issues affecting commercial mortgage lending
- Real estate finance investigations, expert opinions and strategic advisory work
- Counsel to lenders, investors, owners and developers confronting complex or unusual commercial real estate problems
- Advising on federal and state regulation of real estate and its financing.
The practice also encompasses construction litigation and dispute resolution, including matters involving payment, performance, project disruption, contractual disputes, defaults, and other issues arising during the development and construction process.
Tendy Law brings additional depth through its experience in commercial and construction litigation practice and outside general counsel experience, allowing the firm to assist clients not only with individual transactions or disputes, but also with the broader legal, operational, and risk-management issues that arise in real estate and construction businesses.
The practice is designed with our multidisciplinary platform, combining deep real estate finance experience with construction, litigation, and general counsel capabilities to help clients structure transactions, manage risk, resolve disputes, and respond effectively when projects or investments become problematic.