Practices and Industries: Finance and Banking

Hanson Baker attorneys support financial institutions, creditors and borrowers in simple and complex financing transactions and recovery.

We have extensive experience in:

Creditor's Rights and Bankruptcy
Foreclosures
Loan Document Preparation and Review
Mortgage Fraud Investigation and Recovery
Secured Lending (Personal and Commercial)
Work Outs

• Creditor's Rights and Bankruptcy.  Represented lenders and other creditors in all types of bankruptcies.
• Creditor's Rights and Bankruptcy.  Represented landlord in leveraged buyout of local company that had filed Chapter 11.
• Creditor's Rights and Bankruptcy.  Represented condominium associations in unit owners' Chapter 13 proceedings to protect the associations' assessment lien.
• Creditor's Rights and Bankruptcy.  Represented lenders in foreclosure matters which eventually were converted to bankruptcies by debtor's inability to pay.
• Foreclosures.  Conducted hundreds of nonjudicial deed of trust foreclosures for a variety of banks and numerous private lenders, and defended lenders from allegations of wrongful foreclosure. 
• Foreclosures.  Represented lenders in numerous receivership proceedings and in judicial foreclosure proceedings. 
• Foreclosures.  Arranged title insured, non-merger deeds in lieu of foreclosure, allowing lenders to retain their security and complete construction or take over leasing activities. 
• Loan Document Preparation and Review.  Represented owner in financing and refinancing numerous commercial properties in Washington, Arizona and California.
• Mortgage Fraud Investigation and Recovery.  Successfully defended mortgage lenders’ lien interests in numerous disputes arising out of borrower and broker mortgage fraud.
• Secured Lending (Personal and Commercial).  Represented several banks in preparation of form loan documents for construction and collateralized loans.
• Secured Lending (Personal and Commercial).  Represented lenders in preparation of documents for initial reverse 1031 Exchanges and documents with non-traditional collateral requirements.
• Work Outs.  Reorganized collateral requirements and restructured debt for local music company and local bank taken over by receiver.
• Work Outs.  Regularly represented secured and unsecured lenders in work-out negotiations, including defaults on land development loans and defaults on multi-million dollar lines of credit to construct spec homes.