Richard A. Rogan
Co-chair, Bankruptcy Department, Office Co-Managing Partner, San FranciscoDownload VCard
Direct: 415.398.8080
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San Francisco, California 94111
Richard A. Rogan is the co-chair of JMBM's Bankruptcy Group, which is recognized by U.S. News & World Report / Best Law Firms® with a Metropolitan First-Tier Ranking (San Francisco) for Bankruptcy Litigation.
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 reorganizations, loan documentation and structuring, banking, leasing, bankruptcy, insolvency, guarantees, real and personal property secured transactions, agricultural loans, commercial and real estate litigation, trust litigation, construction finance, dispute resolution and receiverships.
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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., University of California, Hastings College of Law, 1975
Editorial Review Board, Hastings Law Journal
A.B., Hamilton College, 1972
with honors
Bar Admissions
State Bar of California, 1975U.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
Associations
Chair, Business Law Section, Financial Institutions Committee, State Bar of California
San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association, 1975-present
Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum
Director, Bay Area Chapter California Receivers Forum, 2001-2011
Member, Business Law Section, Committee on Business Bankruptcy , American Bar Association
Member, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, American Bar Association
Member, Real Property Section, State Bar of California
Awards & Recognition
- Named "Super Lawyer" in the "Northern California Super Lawyers," published by Law & Politics and San Francisco Magazine, 2005-2012
- Recognized in Best Lawyers in America®, Bankruptcy, 2011-2013
- Editorial Associate, Hastings Law Journal, 1973-1975
- Who's Who in America
- Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review, AV Rating