Lisa Alpert Rosen is the deputy chair of Sutherland's Real Estate Practice Group and concentrates her practice in real estate finance and lending, bankruptcy and restructuring. She has broad legal and business experience in all aspects of real estate and capital markets transactions, including securitized and conventional mortgage lending, acquisitions, equity and fund formation, partnership structuring, private placement syndications, commercial leasing, real property management, asset management, dispositions, workouts and foreclosures. Lisa has lectured for the Real Property Section of the American Bar Association and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), as well as other groups, on selected topics in finance and real estate law. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable Frank A. Kaufman, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for Maryland and as a partner at another firm prior to joining Sutherland. Representative Experience Lisa represents a wide range of lenders, pension fund advisors, syndicators and credit enhancers in various aspects of real estate finance and development. Some recent representative experience includes: · Acting as counsel to several of the largest securitized and institutional lenders with regard to their servicing and origination activities and their non-performing loan portfolios. · Representing advisers and investors in connection with their commercial real estate portfolios including separate account acquisitions, participating mortgage loans, workouts, bankruptcy and foreclosure matters, and sales and dispositions. · Working extensively with lenders in connection with restructuring of single assets and defaulted loan portfolios in bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy contexts. · Representing leading developers in connection with equity and debt financings and acquisitions and dispositions of office buildings and/or portfolios. · Representing investors in connection with construction/permanent loan products, co-lending arrangements and acquisition/refinancing loans. Professional and Community Involvement · Member, Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section, American Bar Association · Member, International Association of Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate · Member, District of Columbia Building Industry Association · Member, Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Finance Council Recent Publications and Speaking Engagements · Co-author, "Case Study: Wells Fargo v. Cherryland Mall," Law360 (January 27, 2012) · Author, "Construction Issues on Leasing: A Landlord's Perspective," publication by ALI-ABA and Attorneys & Executives in Corporate Real Estate (2002) · Speaker, International Council of Shopping Centers' (ICSC) Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan Retail Development & Law Symposium (April 7-8, 2005) Industries Retirement Products and Services Legal Alerts Legal Alert: Michigan Court Holds Borrower's Breach of SPE Requirement in Non-Recourse Carve-Out Provision of CMBS Loan Document Results in Full Recourse Liability for Borrower and Guarantor
January 23, 2012 Legal Alert: Lenders Beware in Maryland: The Changing Nature of IDOT Recordation Tax Collection
December 2, 2010 Legal Alert: IRS Issues Welcome Guidance Regarding Treatment of Releases of Property Securing REMIC Loans
August 26, 2010 Legal Alert: Bankruptcy Court Denies CMBS Lenders' Requests to Dismiss Bankruptcy Petitions of SPE Affiliates of General Growth Properties, Inc.
August 19, 2009 Legal Alert: New District of Columbia Recordation Tax Rates on Transfers of Economic Interests
September 25, 2008 Legal Alert: Putting Covered Bonds In Perspective
August 15, 2008 Legal Alert: New District of Columbia Recordation Tax Rates and Procedures for Calculating Recordation Tax on Refinanced Deeds
June 19, 2008 Legal Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Pre-Confirmation Tax Exemptions
June 18, 2008 Legal Alert: New Maryland Recordation and Transfer Tax on a Transfer of "Controlling Interest" in a "Real Property Entity"
November 30, 2007 Legal Alert: Proposed Amendments to REMIC Regulations Published Today
November 9, 2007 Publications Case Study: Wells Fargo v. Cherryland Mall
January 27, 2012 Reprinted with permission from Law360 Events International Council of Shopping Centers' Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan Retail Development & Law Symposium
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