Mark is a Partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP. He practices in the areas of real estate, REIT, and fund finance; private equity; workouts; restructurings; and bankruptcies. Mark regularly represents lenders and others in a wide variety of mortgage and construction loan transactions, and unsecured and borrowing base financings, involving—among other asset types—office, commercial, retail, industrial, multi-family, hospitality, healthcare, homebuilding, and condominium and cooperatives. He also represents lenders and others in complex real estate workouts, restructurings, and chapter 11 proceedings.
Banks are facing up to the office sector’s decline, ditching the extend-and-pretend strategy for cut-and-run.
I’ve never heard of this happening before. Banks are actually coming to us saying, ‘We’d rather take the hit today and lose maybe $10 million than give the borrower two years when we might take a $40 million loss.