Katherine A. Burroughs is a partner in the finance and real estate group and the business restructuring and reorganization group. Her practice is focused in the areas of commercial real estate finance, securitization, restructuring and bankruptcy. She has represented capital market investors, an international rating agency, and loan servicers and special servicers in securitization, mortgage and mezzanine loan origination, acquisition and restructuring, loan servicing and special servicing, workout, bankruptcy and foreclosure matters in the U.S., European and Canadian real estate structured finance markets.
Education
Cornell University, B.S., 1985
William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, J.D., 1988, Order of the Coif
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
Connecticut
New York
Massachusetts
Memberships
CRE Finance Council (CREFC)
Mortgage Bankers Association
International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation
Publications and Lectures
Recognized by the American Bankruptcy Institute for her articles, she authored the “CMBS Servicing (Europe),” “Commercial Mortgage Backed Securitisation – Developments in the European Market;” and “Complex Securitized Loans” chapters in the Mortgage and Asset Backed Securitization Litigation Handbook. Recent published articles include “Treatment of Mortgage Loan Repurchase Agreements in Bankruptcy” (an ABA Real Property Section publication); “Bankruptcy Filings by U.S. Based Foreign Hedge Funds” , “Enforceability of Forbearance Agreements in Chapter 11” and co-author of "Forebearance Agreements" (all New York Law Journal); and “Recent Bankruptcy Cases Impacting Commercial Real Estate Financing and Securitization” (Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law), as well as the following:
- Speaker, “Loan Defaults, Workouts and Foreclosures,” 2011 Mortgage Bankers Association Servicing and Technology Conference, Chicago, IL (May 16, 2011)
- Speaker, “Foreclosure Issues: Mortgage and Mezzanine Loan Enforcement” 2011 PLI Commercial Real Estate Workouts and Restructurings Conference, New York (March 29, 2011)
- Chair, “Special Servicer/Special Asset Manager Update & Outlook for the Next 12 Months” 10th Annual Borrowers’, Investors’ & Special Servicers’ Forum on Real Estate Mezzanine Lending and Distressed Debt Conference, New York (November 30, 2010)
- Speaker, “Navigating Servicer Liability,” 2010 Mortgage Bankers Association Servicing and Technology Conference, Washington, DC (May 24, 2010)
- Speaker, “Is Commercial Real Estate the Next Litigation Wave?,” 2010 ABA Section of Litigation Annual Conference, New York (April 22, 2010)
- Speaker, “Foreclosure Issues,” 2010 PLI Commercial Real Estate Workouts and Restructurings Conference, New York (April 6, 2010)
- Speaker, “Workout Panel III: Evaluating Borrower/ Mezzanine Loan Owner Issues,” 8th Annual Borrowers’ & Investors’ Forum on Real Estate Mezzanine Loans & Preferred Equity Financing, New York (December 2, 2008)