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Office Co-Managing Partner, San Francisco
RRogan@JMBM.com
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San Francisco

Two Embarcadero Center,
5th Floor
San Francisco, California 94111

Main: 415.398.8080
Direct: 415.398.8080
Fax: 800.867.4612
Jo Anne Bultena
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Main BioPersonal Bio

Richard A. Rogan's practice emphasizes financial transactions, real estate, bankruptcy, insolvency, banking, corporate governance and commercial law. His clients include banks, financial institutions, conduit, asset-based and hard money lenders, investors, businesses, developers, hotels, receivers and creditors' committees. 

Dick has significant experience in all phases of commercial and real estate finance, including formal and informal business credit structuring and reorganizations, loan documentation and structuring, banking, leasing, bankruptcy, insolvency, guarantees, real and personal property secured transactions, agricultural loans, commercial and real estate litigation, construction finance, dispute resolution and receiverships. 

Read posts on timely topics regarding problem loans and troubled debts at SpecialAssetsLawyer.com or follow Dick Rogan, Chair of JMBM's Special Assets Team, on twitter.

Representative Experience:

  • Provides strategic planning and counsel to lenders, borrowers and guarantors regarding corporate, real estate and bankruptcy law aspects of major acquisitions, workouts, bankruptcies, restructurings and liquidations
  • Representation of agent of multi-lender shared commercial and real estate credits at all stages including origination, negotiation, mediation, restructuring prior to and in bankruptcy, and in litigation
  • Counsel to creditors' committees in major high-tech company assignments for the benefit of creditors and Chapter 11 cases
  • Out-of-court restructuring and liquidation of numerous large commercial and real estate credits, including multi-bank, agricultural, revenue bonds, REIT, CMBS and hospitality matters
  • Broad experience in difficult receiverships, assignments for the benefit of creditors and other out-of-court insolvency matters
  • Counsel to commercial banks on confidential and delicate credit and operations issues
  • Frequent speaker to industry and legal groups on financial services, insolvency and receivership topics
  • Co-chair, JMBM's Bankruptcy Department
  • Co-Managing Partner, JMBM's San Francisco office, 2002-present
  • Representation of major lenders in successful landmark appeals involving letters of credit and producer's liens
Education

J.D., 1975, University of California, Hastings College of Law Editorial Review Board, Hastings Law Journal

A.B., 1972, with honors, Hamilton College

PracticesBankruptcy, Corporate, Creditors' Rights, Global Hospitality Group®, Real Estate, Distressed Assets & Real Estate, Secured Lender Defense

IndustriesBanking & Financial Services, Agribusiness, Beverage Alcohol Group

Associations
  • Director, Bay Area Chapter California Receivers Forum, 2001-present
  • Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum
  • San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association, 1975-present
  • Member, Business Law Section, Committee on Business Bankruptcy , American Bar Association
  • Member, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, American Bar Association
  • Vice-Chair, Business Law Section, Financial Institutions Committee, State Bar of California
  • Member, Real Property Section, State Bar of California
  • Bar Association of San Francisco—Commercial Law & Bankruptcy Section

 

Awards &
Recognition
  • Named "Super Lawyer" in the "Northern California Super Lawyers," published by Law & Politics and San Francisco Magazine, 2005-11
  • Recognized in Best Lawyers in America®, Bankruptcy, 2012
  • Editorial Associate, Hastings Law Journal, 1973-1975
  • Who's Who in America 
  • Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review, AV Rating
Speaking
Engagements
  • Structured-Finance Asset Restructuring and Disposition webinar sponsored by Property Sciences, Sept 2009
  • California Bankers Association, Bank Counsel Seminar
  • JMBM Northern California Commercial Finance Roundtable
  • TMA Distressed Real Estate Summit Conference, 2008 
Bar Admissions

State Bar of California 1975

U.S. Supreme Court 1980

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit 1975

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California 1975

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California 1975

U.S. District Court, Central District of California

U.S. District Court, Southern District of California

JMBM SuccessesJMBM Distressed Dealer Task ForceJMBM successfully defends a lender against a borrower/guarantor seeking to set aside guarantees and deeds of trust on real property securing commercial loans
 
JMBM Events
02/10/10Receivership 101: What You Need to Know in the Current Economy
09/30/09Property Sciences Webinar: Structured-Finance Asset Restructuring and Disposition Strategies
 
Speaking
Engagements
02/14/12Financial Institutions Committee of the State Bar of California
02/02/12Special Assets Management Association Meeting: Maximizing Asset Values through Receivership
08/12/10Techniques for Handling Troubled Companies Outside of Bankruptcy
Articles
10/20/11Expert Analysis: When your borrower files bankruptcy - a 10-point checklist
12/21/09Corporate Law Winter 2010 Newsletter: Creditors’ Rights: California Now Allows Personal Property Judgment Liens to be Extended for More Than Five Years
01/01/09JMBM Focus: Credit Bidding in California Foreclosure Sale
Newsletters
12/21/09JMBM Corporate Law Newsletter Winter 2010
 
Media Mentions
11/07/11Law360: ResCap Woes Portend Possible Bankruptcies for Lenders
01/12/11Daily Deal: Highlands Creditor Moves for Stay Relief
12/20/10Commercial Lending Litigation News: New Secretary of the State Bar of California's Financial Institutions Committee
Blogs
01/09/12Don't Create A Liability When You Sell A Loan
12/30/11Don't Create A Liability When You Sell A Loan
12/30/11Why It Is Important For A Lender To File A Proof Of Claim
Additional Resources
Receiverships 101: What you need to know now!
Legal Services for Agribusiness Lenders
 

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