Frantz Ward manages legal matters for lenders and financial institutions across all areas of complex commercial finance. We represent entities, including large national banks, regional and community banks, and non-bank lenders, as well as a captive financing arm of a Fortune 100 company. Providing services from transactional work to litigation and class action defense, we assist clients with matters such as:
- Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Lender liability
- Failure to disburse issues
- Consumer complaints
- Deposit issues
- Foreclosure disputes
Our team has defended lenders against claims and lawsuits involving the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Working proactively, our attorneys counsel clients on steps they can take to minimize the risk of lender liability litigation.
Additionally, our attorneys have particular experience in asset-based lending and equipment finance and leasing.
Our Group regularly advises clients on the structuring, documentation, and implementation of sophisticated lending transactions, including both public and private debt. We also counsel clients on dealing with troubled credits and special debt situations, including financial workouts, debt restructures, and judicial and non-judicial remedy enforcement.
Frantz Ward has extensive experience in representing lenders as the primary secured creditor/creditor group in Chapter 11 bankruptcies, state receiverships, and other insolvency proceedings. Our team also represents lenders and financial institutions in estate and trust administration.
Representative Matters
- Served as lead counsel to a national automotive financing entity as a secured creditor in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding.
- Represented a financial institution in putative nationwide consumer fraudulent mortgage release class action.
- Represented a federal savings bank in the favorable resolution of a complex business dispute involving the financing of a multi-million-dollar downtown Cleveland, Ohio office building and hotel project.
