Banking & Finance

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We offer creative strategies to assist clients in achieving their organizational goals, whether the focus is growth and expansion, operations, or restructurings. Our litigation team also has a long track record of success representing banking and finance institutions in trial, arbitration, mediation, and pre-litigation dispute resolution settings.

Related practices

Related Practices

• Affordable Housing
• Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights
• Bond Transactions
• Business Litigation
• Business Transactions
• Commercial Finance
• Convenience Store & Gas Station
• Corporate
• Corporate Taxation
• Economic Development
• Employment
• Estates & Trusts
• Foreclosures & Workouts
• Insurance Coverage & Defense
• Litigation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Professional Malpractice
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Litigation
• Taxation
• Zoning / Land Use

Representative Engagements

• Representation of regional and national financial institutions, and distressed debt investors, as secured creditors in numerous bankruptcy cases and non-bankruptcy workouts.

• Successful defense of a $1.8 million fraudulent transfer claim against an investor who had provided financing to the debtor through the vehicle of a sale of property to the investor subject to a repurchase option.

• Counsel to national lenders in commercial financing and sale-leasebacks across the United States involving gas stations and convenience stores.

• Successfully defended a bank holding company and a community bank in litigation brought by a dissident shareholder seeking to block a bank merger. Represented the defendants in three state court suits and a proceeding before the Georgia Securities Commissioner alleging securities fraud. Client was able to proceed with its merger.

• Represented parties in various types of leasing transactions, including ground lease developments, office leasing, retail leasing, industrial leasing, and warehouse leasing.

Articles

• Articles

Is it a Boat Slip, a Dock, or a Condo? Wait, it’s a Dockominium!

May 10, 2023

By Francesca Macchiaverna, as published by Legal Newswire The term “dockominium” is not defined in the Georgia Condominium Act or Georgia case law. Dockominiums as an interest in land are…

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Corporate Transparency Act: Will You Need to Register Your Business After January 1, 2024?

January 10, 2023

By Louann Bronstein, as published by Legal Newswire The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) will become effective January 1, 2024. The CTA was enacted on January 1, 2021, as part of…

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Recent Developments in Admiralty and Maritime Law

May 31, 2022

Co-authored by attorney Justin Guthrie, this article was published in the Spring 2022 Survey Issue of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal. This article discusses noteworthy admiralty…

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