James Cochran

Jim has extensive experience advising clients in workouts and restructurings involving complex collateral packages and multiple jurisdictions. Jim routinely represents secured lenders, distressed debt investors, special servicers and other clients in connection with secured loan restructurings (including consolidations), structured asset dispositions, collateral “take backs,” discounted payoffs, note sales and similar matters as well as lien enforcement proceedings (including judicial and nonjudicial foreclosures of retail, office, hotel and other properties and UCC sales of limited liability company and partnership interests).

Jim also advises lenders and investors in a wide variety of sophisticated commercial real estate financings, including mortgage loan transactions (both recourse and non-recourse) and mezzanine loan transactions.

Jim has particular expertise in loan portfolio reviews, secured financings, enforcement actions and other matters involving Article 9 (Secured Transactions) of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Jim also has particular expertise in designing, implementing and managing systematized and scalable programs, based on selected project management methodologies, to deliver a wide range of legal services in commercial real estate loan enforcement and other commercial real estate-related matters on a fixed fee or other predictable price basis.

Formerly a co-chair of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the California State Bar’s Business Law Section and a member of the Section’s Executive Committee, Jim recently served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Financial Lawyers Conference. He is currently a member of the Opinions Committee of the California Lawyers Association’s Business Law Section.

Jim is a fellow of both the American College of Mortgage Attorneys and the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.