Practice Expertise

  • In- and Out-of-Court Restructurings & ...
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Real Estate Workouts

Areas of Practice

  • In- and Out-of-Court Restructurings & ...
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Real Estate Workouts
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Profile

Jerry Peven is the co-team leader of the Firm's Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities Special Servicer Group. He focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financings, and loan workouts. He represents real estate owners and operators, banks and other financial institutions and special servicers of securitized loans on a local and national basis. Jerry's substantial loan workout experience includes the preparation and negotiation of forbearance agreements, bring current agreements, loan modification and restructuring agreements, deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure and loan assumption agreements involving vacant land and properties improved with hotels, shopping centers, commercial office buildings, multifamily and golf courses. He also has had significant experience in the acquisition and disposition of apartment projects, shopping centers, industrial properties and office buildings. During his career, Jerry has represented Equity Residential (one of the largest residential REITs in the U.S.); JVM Realty Corporation; Freestone Realty Advisors; CW Capital; RBS Citizens National Association; Advantage National Bank; Bank One N.A., JPMorgan Chase, N.A.; Mooring Financial Corporation. the National Credit Union Administration, C-III Asset Management LLC and Rialto Capital Advisors, LLC. Both C-III and Rialto are special servicers of CMBS loans.


Bar Admissions

Illinois, 1980

Education
Northwestern University, J.D. Washington University, B.S.

Areas of Practice

  • In- and Out-of-Court Restructurings & Liquidations
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Real Estate Workouts
  • Representation of Financial Institutions in Bankruptcy & Workout Matters

Professional Career



Articles

"The Problem of Surreptious Entry to Implement a Title III Intercept Order," Northwestern Journal of Criminal Law

Blogs

Cannabis Law Blog

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Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments

Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments provides legal insight on topics of special interest to insurance industry professionals. Covering a wide range of industries, Dykema's Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments blog provides brief but substantive alerts, including updates and analysis on significant developments and trends in the insurance industry.

The Firewall

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