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09.15.10

Manatt Practices Achieve Top-Tier National Rankings from U.S.- News Best Lawyers

U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers have released the 2010 Best Law Firms rankings, marking the inaugural publication of what is to be an annual analysis, with Manatt scoring four Tier 1 national rankings and 31 metropolitan designations.The rankings, including 30,322 rankings of 8,782 law firms ...


08.30.10

Gantz, Muller, Edwards Discuss Opportunities in the Unsettled Real Estate Market with GlobeSt.com

Real estate recessions have proven to both break and make great fortunes.  Banks, the FDIC, and CMBS servicers hold more than $140 billion in troubled loans, and that number is growing.  Many investors are seeing that $140 billion problem as a real opportunity to buy defaulted loans at a ...


07.28.10

Sales Not Keeping Pace With Delinquent CRE Borrowers

The Daily Journal interviewed Manatt’s Tom Muller for an article on why attorneys are anticipating that as commercial loan losses rise, the wave of mortgage transactions will swell.   The publication reports that, even as regulators increase the pressure on lenders to clean up their ...


06.16.10

Manatt Recommended by The Legal 500 in Three Core Practice Areas

The Legal 500 recommended Manatt in three core practice areas, including Marketing & Advertising, Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Estate. The rankings were published in the 2010 edition of The Legal 500 United States.The Legal 500 United States rankings are compiled by a team of researchers ...


06.08.10

Muller Interviewed on CMBS Market in Retail Traffic

Tom Muller, a partner in Manatt’s Real Estate and Land Use Practice Group, talked with Retail Traffic about the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market, and buzz created by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) bringing the first multi-borrower deal to market. The deal, ...