Commercial & Banking Litigation
The Commercial and Banking Litigation Group regularly handles a spectrum of disputes in a diverse range of industries arising in conjunction with the business activities of our clients, including Uniform Commercial Code sales, foreclosure and guaranty suits, mechanics liens, fraud, replevins, commercial collection actions, and priority disputes. Additionally, we provide efficient and economical service in responding to the unique disputes our lender clients routinely face, ranging from lender liability actions, assertions of claims of fraud on the part of borrowers or their principals, and regulatory issues.
Our attorneys constructively advise our clients in a timely and cost-effective manner to assist in achieving the desired goal. Our lawyers have become trusted and respected advisors to business decision-makers in many different businesses of all sizes, from individual entrepreneurships to national corporations.
In the forum of Banking Litigation, we provide for our lender-clients’ needs on all levels, from defending lender liability actions, to enforcing rights against borrowers in state courts and before the federal (including bankruptcy) courts. Our litigators have represented lenders in actions to recover unpaid obligations from principals and guarantors, foreclosures, and assertion of claims for fraud on the part of borrowers or their principals.
Author, “Being Shorter than Normal is Legal in Illinois,” McHenry County Bar Association - In Brief, Februrary 2012.
Presenter, “Post Foreclosure Issues” National Business Institute, Lisle, IL, January 2012.
Financial Services Alert: National City Bank v. Majerczyk
Financial Services Alert: Randle v. Americash Loans, LLC
Author, "The answer is in the minutes," Illinois State Bar Association - Commercial Banking, Collections & Bankruptcy Law Section Council Newsletter, Vol. 55, No. 1, December 2010.
Author, “Judgments by Confession," Illinois Banker, Vol. 95, No. 5, May 2010.
Moderator and Presenter, "Documenting Commercial Loans," Illinois State Bar Association Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Section Council's continuing legal education seminar, February 15, 2010.
Author, "Trapping Peter to Save Paul: How Marzano Creates a Jurisdictional Trap for Defendants,” Illinois State Bar Association - Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Section Council Newsletter, Vol. 53, No. 3, January 2009.
Financial Services Newsletter - Fall 2008
Financial Services Newsletter - Summer 2008
Financial Services Newsletter - Spring 2008
Author, “The Importance of Being Thorough,” Illinois State Bar Association Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Section Council Newsletter, Vol. 52, No. 3, November 2007.
Presenter, “Privacy in Banking Under the Illinois Banking Act and the Right to Financial Privacy,” Illinois State Bar Association Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Section Council Banking Law Seminar, April 20 and April 27, 2007.
Author, “What is a ‘Charging Order’ and Why Should I Care?” McHenry County Bar Association, Legal Notes, January 2007.