Defense of General Counsel in Bank Fraud Bankruptcy Case

ES Bankest's Former General Counsel

Defense of ES Bankest's former general counsel in the bankruptcy commenced by the ES Bankest's court appointed receiver resulting from the largest bank fraud ever committed in the Southern District of Florida. The centerpiece of the chapter 11 case was a $170 million lawsuit against our client and others for negligence and aiding and abetting.

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Successful representation of California bank in complex mortgage foreclosure debt recovery action through state court and bankruptcy court in the Southern District of Florida, which resulted in the criminal indictment of the borrower's principal for bank fraud.
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Representation of LNR Partners, the largest special servicer of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loans in the country. LNR services 145 pools of CMBS loans, totaling more than $220 billion in principal and relating to real property interests in all fifty states. We have handled over $4.2...
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Debtors' counsel to Fontainebleau Las Vegas Holdings, LLC, and two of its affiliates in their chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of Florida. The debtors had over $2 billion of funded debt, had used $500 million of equity, and were prosecuting claims for $800 million in unpaid additional finan...
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