Practice Areas & Industries: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

From our offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Delaware, Indiana, Michigan, Minneapolis, Ohio and Washington, D.C., the Barnes & Thornburg LLP Mortgage Law Practice Group offers institutions in the mortgage lending industry a broad range of transactional, regulatory compliance, and litigation services.

We represent virtually every type of entity in the mortgage lending chain, from initial funding to warehouse lenders to investors in the secondary market. Our clients include national and regional bank holding companies, mortgage lenders, independent specialty secondary lenders, finance companies, warehouse lenders, consumer finance companies and other lending and financial institutions.

Attorneys in our group have sought and achieved significant recoveries against mortgage brokers, appraisers, title companies and others involved in loan transactions. Our group also assists companies in drafting lending and security agreements to optimize their potential recovery in these cases. In addition to civil recoveries, we have ex-AUSA attorneys who serve as liaisons between the client and the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigations, when necessary, to investigate and prosecute, and/or defend mortgage fraud cases, including the defense of officers/directors in criminal and quasi criminal matters.

The firm’s Mortgage Law Practice Group, made up of roughly 20 partners and associates, has litigated actions in Alabama, Arizona, California, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Tennessee and Washington, D.C. Members of the group practice in a variety of areas of law, including business, bond, finance, insolvency and restructuring, litigation, taxation, and real estate. The interdisciplinary nature of our group allows us to offer legal services to lending and financial institutions in matters that cross of a multitude of legal disciplines. In addition, our partnerships with national organizations such as TerraLex and the State Capital Global Law Firm Group grant us access to resources in virtually every jurisdiction, allowing us to provide legal services in matters that cross multiple jurisdictions.