Six attorneys in Ballard Spahr's Washington office have been elected to the firm’s partnership, effective July 1, 2016, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced. In all 12 attorneys have been promoted to partner, drawn from a variety of practice areas and offices throughout the firm.
“We are thrilled that so many of our new partners are based in Washington and that they represent such a diverse range of practice areas,” said Joseph A. Fanone, Managing Partner of Ballard Spahr’s Washington, D.C. office. “It speaks to the firm’s commitment to Washington and the depth of talent we have here. We are consistently growing— both organically and through lateral hiring. It’s an exciting time.”
Ballard Spahr’s new partners in Washington, D.C. represent the business and finance, litigation, public finance, and real estate practices. With its new additions, Ballard Spahr has 27 partners in Washington, D.C. Our new partners for 2016 are:
Glenn J. Figurski, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Figurski focuses on complex transactional real estate matters nationwide. He represents major lenders in commercial real estate finance transactions, including the origination of conduit, health care, multi-family, hospitality, construction and mezzanine loans, and in loan sales, participations, and syndications.
Mr. Figurski also represents lenders and loan servicers in the workout and restructuring of distressed CMBS and non-securitized real estate loans, including modifications, forbearances, discounted payoffs, deeds-in-lieu and enforcement of remedies against borrowers and guarantors, and in general loan servicing matters.
Amy M. Glassman, Washington D.C.
Ms. Glassman advises public housing authorities, developers, nonprofits, and other recipients of HUD funds in regulatory, administrative, and transactional matters. She helps HUD funding recipients comply with federal program guidelines, particularly related to Section 8 (both housing choice vouchers and project-based rental assistance) and public housing.
Ms. Glassman focuses on fair housing and accessibility matters, including accessible design issues, tenant complaints, and fair housing policy development, investigations, and compliance.She advises on HUD enforcement and investigation matters, including OIG audits, HAP defaults and HUD debarment, suspension, and civil money penalty actions. On the transactional side, she assists with transactions involving HUD funding, including mixed-finance public housing redevelopments and conversions of public housing to Section 8, particularly those involving HUD's Rental Assistance Demonstration program. Before becoming a lawyer, Ms. Glassman was an affordable housing consultant.
Reid F. Herlihy, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Herlihy provides regulatory and transactional advice on matters involving state and federal consumer finance laws. His clients include mortgage companies, servicers, consumer finance companies, financial institutions, investment banks, debt collectors, and secondary-market investors.
He advises clients on the CFPB's Mortgage Servicing Rules, advertising, fair debt collection, lending and servicing disclosures, loss mitigation, foreclosure procedures, and business practices. Mr. Herlihy has extensive experience with the SAFE Act and assists clients with state and federal examination issues and regulatory actions. He helps clients meet state and federal licensing and approval requirements, including those related to stock and asset acquisitions.
Darin Lowder, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Lowder focuses on energy, project finance, and related tax and public financing tools. He is experienced with such project technologies as utility-scale commercial and residential-scale solar photovoltaic systems, onshore and offshore wind development, biomass and biofuel projects, conventional fuel projects, and other energy efficiency and alternative energy technologies.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Lowder worked for publicly owned corporations, small startup companies, and nonprofit organizations in the real estate, financial services, and educational sectors. He served as an economist for a consulting firm, a strategic marketing director for a publicly owned homebuilder, a business strategist for a publicly held technology company, and an executive at a nonprofit educational organization.
John D. Sadler, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Sadler focuses on complex commercial litigation matters. He represents banks, financial institutions, lenders, contractors, homebuilders, real estate developers, commercial landlords, property management companies, insurance companies, and individuals in real estate disputes, corporate disputes, mechanics' liens, breaches of contract, construction, and leasing disputes. He represents financial institutions in litigation arising from residential mortgage lending, retail lender, and consumer protection statutes.
Mr. Sadler has significant experience representing commercial lenders and servicers in litigation, default servicing, debt recovery, lien perfection, judgment enforcement, and lender liability defense matters. He assists lenders in planning, negotiating, and documenting commercial debt restructurings. He also regularly represents creditors, debtors, and trustees in litigation before bankruptcy courts, and represents creditors and financial distressed entities in all phases of the workout and restructuring process.
P. Andrew Spicknall, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Spicknall is a public finance lawyer who represents lenders, underwriters, credit enhancers, borrowers, issuers, trustees, and purchasers in the structuring, issuance, offering, placement, remarketing, and securitization of municipal securities and other complex debt instruments and derivatives.
Mr. Spicknall’s clients operate in a broad variety of industries, including the areas of single family and multifamily housing, higher education, health care, tax increment and special assessment districts, water facilities, and charter school financings. He has also represented clients in numerous debt restructurings and workouts. His practice frequently involves the structuring and negotiating of interest rate swaps, caps, and other derivatives products.
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