Clients rely on Gerald's extensive real estate and real estate lending experience to help them negotiate, document and close a wide variety of transactions.
Overview
Gerald assists clients in a broad array of transactions. His practice includes representing clients in commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) transactions. Gerald has extensive experience representing loan servicers in negotiating and documenting various aspects of CMBS transactions, including securitization transactions, loan modifications and loan workouts. He also advises investors in connection with investments in real estate, including preferred equity investments and purchase and sale transactions. Gerald routinely represents lenders in real estate secured loan transactions, including term loans, construction loans, HUD insured loans, loan modifications and workouts. He also routinely advises landlords and tenants in lease transactions. Knowledgeable about virtually every aspect of the real estate and lending industry, his wide ranging experience allows Gerald to provide practical, efficient advice to his clients.
He also counsels corporate, institutional and individual clients in business and finance, corporate issues and business contracts.
Experience
- Gerald has decades of experience with conduit lending and CMBS transactions, from documenting and closing loans for inclusion in loan securitizations, assisting loan servicers with CMBS securitizations and document loan amendments, workouts and forbearances.
- Gerald guides lenders and borrowers through the intricacies of complex loan transactions such as term loan financing, warehouse financing, revolving credit facilities, bond financing and construction lending.
- He helps borrowers and lenders resolve loan defaults, including forbearance agreements, foreclosures, deeds in lieu of foreclosure and loan workouts.
- He assists landlords and tenants, including lease negotiations.
- Gerald serves as Missouri and Kansas local counsel to assist in structuring, documenting and closing multistate lending transactions.
- Gerald uses his knowledge of consumer credit regulation to help lenders with consumer lending programs, including regulatory and compliance issues and licensing matters.
News & Insights
News
Publications
"Paycheck Protection Program – What Has Changed?" Stinson's Government Contracting Matters Blog, February 4, 2021
"New Law Makes Major Changes to the Paycheck Protection Program," Stinson's Government Contracting Matters Blog, April 3, 2020
"Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Government and Government Contractor Activities Provisions," Stinson's Government Contracting Matters Blog, April 3, 2020
"Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Small Business Provisions," Stinson's Government Contracting Matters Blog, April 3, 2020
Recognitions
Recognitions
Selected as "Lawyer of the Year" by The Best Lawyers in America©, 2021
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® list, 2016-2027 for Securitization and Structured Finance Law and Real Estate Law
Professional & Civic Activities
Professional & Civic Activities
American Bar Association
American Land Title Association (ALTA), Associate Member, Legal Division
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Lawyers Association of Kansas City
Kansas Bar Association
Practices & Industries
Admissions
- Missouri, 1987
- Kansas, 1989
Education
University of Missouri-Columbia, J.D., 1987
University of Missouri-Columbia, B.S., 1984
