Banking Misconduct Blog

Most of the lender liability cases we handle have been worked on by other lawyers prior to coming to us. Sometimes the clients aren’t happy with their lawyer and sometimes the lawyer refuses to sue the client’s bank. Believe it or not, many lawyers refer cases to us when they realize...

The real estate industry is quite cyclical. Unfortunately, many investors who participated in the last round of shopping center construction are finding themselves in trouble. Worse, many are in deep trouble but don’t even know it. While institutional investors may be better prepared to...

Rating agencies are sounding the alarm over the looming problems facing maturing CMBS loans. A large percentage of commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) financed loans were underwritten in 2006 and 2007 at the height of the real estate market. Those loans are coming due just as the...

2016 and 2017 are the years when many CMBS (Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities) mortgages mature. Loans that were written in the height of the real estate market are now coming due. Even though most of these loans are not in default, we are already seeing problems with those forced to...

“Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic,” that is how I describe the many owners of real estate projects financed with CMBS or tenant in common structures. The ship is sinking, slipping under the surface, yet the party on the upper decks continues. Unfortunately, the folks most at...

The year was 2006, the economy was booming and many thought the real estate market still had years more of growth. Promoters like Carlton Cabot and Tony Thompson were pushing a unique investment called a “tenant-in-common” or TIC investment. TICs took advantage of a 2002 IRS revenue...