NEW YORK, December 1, 2009 – Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP is pleased to announce that Brooks S. Clark has joined the firm as Partner effective December 1, 2009. Mr. Clark will be part of the firm’s Real Estate Department, and will work from the New York office, located on Wall Street.
“We are pleased to have Brooks join our firm,” said Macculloch M. Irving, Chair of Carter Ledyard’s Real Estate Department. “Brooks’ commercial real estate finance and workout experience both strengthens and expands our real estate capabilities to our clients.”
Mr. Clark has extensive experience advising clients in a broad range of sophisticated commercial real estate transaction and recovery issues including, sale-leasebacks and project finance, loan restructurings, workouts, and direction of foreclosure proceedings, negotiating and drafting of finance, joint venture, hotel operating and franchise agreements. He has represented investment banks as equity investors and lenders on sale-leasebacks by Fortune 500 companies, and portfolio and securitized lenders in pre-negotiation and forbearance agreements, restructuring agreements, foreclosures, deed-in-lieu arrangements, co-lender, A/B and mezzanine intercreditor arrangements, bridge financing, preferred equity, mezzanine and construction financings.. He also has represented REITs in joint ventures to manage, purchase, and sell hotel assets.
Mr. Clark earned an A.B from College of William & Mary in 1988 and a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1992. He is admitted in both New York and Connecticut and is a member of Commercial Mortgage Securities Association, and Loan Syndications and Trading Association, Inc., among others. He was previously Counsel at Kaye Scholer LLP in its Real Estate Finance and Real Estate Securitization Groups.
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP (www.clm.com), established in 1854, has approximately 97 attorneys and has been headquartered on Wall Street since its founding and has additional offices in midtown Manhattan and Washington, DC. Carter Ledyard’s general practice includes corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, litigation, intellectual property, environmental, employment, media and technology, immigration, investment regulation, antitrust, trusts and estates, maritime, ERISA, exempt organizations, real estate, tax and bankruptcy. A significant part of the firm’s practice involves representing overseas-based clients and their U.S. affiliates, financial institutions and other financial services providers, governmental entities and media and technology clients.