Practice Areas & Industries: Holme Roberts & Owen LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

As a preeminent law firm in the areas of commercial banking, real estate and finance, HRO has an unparalleled understanding of deal structures and real estate and asset-based financing enabling it to develop creative strategies for lenders, investors and sellers when faced with distressed assets. Any level of turmoil in the real estate and capital markets creates opportunities and challenges for lenders, investors, sellers and other market participants and HRO’s team will provide assistance and advice at the highest level.

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In response, HRO has brought together an experienced group of attorneys from its real estate, corporate finance, bankruptcy and litigation practice areas to create an interdisciplinary team to advise clients seeking to capitalize on these emerging opportunities and negotiate these challenges. Our attorneys have extensive experience structuring debt financing transactions involving banks, commercial finance companies, private equity funds and venture capital groups as well as advising clients when acquiring distressed properties and assets. Examples include:

• Acquisition and disposition of distressed debt and other claims.
• Loan workouts, including the drafting and negotiation of pre-negotiation letters, forbearance agreements, deeds in lieu of foreclosure and the top level structuring of workout negotiations.
• Representing clients in commercial loan defaults and complex public trustee, judicial and UCC foreclosures and receivership proceedings as well as other creditor remedies/debtor defenses.
• Employing all necessary means to realize on collateral, through restructuring, litigation and/or bankruptcy.
• One-Stop Service: Our team enables clients to obtain a full suite of legal advice for all of their lending and distressed asset needs.

Our experience in these areas enables us to provide comprehensive, timely and effective legal services to help our clients navigate through the complex world of distressed asset restructuring, acquisition, exercise of remedies, bankruptcy, litigation and workout negotiations. HRO’s multidisciplinary team approach gives our clients the advantage of obtaining the counsel of attorneys with expertise in several disciplines, and many years of experience.