Focus Area
Commercial Real Estate Workouts
Seamlessly collaborating with colleagues in restructuring, real estate, tax, litigation, and finance, Goulston & Storrs attorneys deliver strategic, interdisciplinary solutions tailored to the unique challenges of distressed real estate assets. We help clients maximize recoveries, reposition distressed assets, and achieve strategic objectives.
Our clients—including developer-borrowers, REITs, real estate investment funds, lenders, investors acquiring distressed properties, hotel operators, retailers, landlords, and court-appointed trustees—span sectors such as retail, multi-family housing, hospitality, industrial, office, and restaurant properties. They rely on us for guidance across the full spectrum of commercial real estate workouts, foreclosures, bankruptcy, and other insolvency proceedings, with solutions tailored to the unique needs of each client and asset type.
From pre-default strategizing to post-default resolution, we help clients navigate every stage of a distressed real estate transaction. Whether negotiating forbearance agreements, restructuring debt, or implementing deeds-in-lieu, our team delivers creative and practical solutions based on decades of experience. We regularly represent clients in federal and state courts across Massachusetts, New York, Delaware, and the U.S., and actively participate in workouts, bankruptcy cases and other insolvency proceedings nationwide.
Clients count on Goulston & Storrs for proactive guidance in today’s dynamic CRE market. With direct access to experienced lawyers who understand our clients’ business goals and the realities of the market, clients benefit from actionable advice, integrated legal and business insight, and responsive, solutions-oriented communication.
Recognizing that borrowers and lenders face different motivations and pressures, we align our strategies and guidance accordingly. Across all matters, our goal is to protect asset value, minimize exposure, and deliver targeted, sustainable outcomes.
We provide innovative solutions for out-of-court workouts and foreclosures involving CMBS and mezzanine loans, including deeds-in-lieu, forbearance agreements, 1031 like-kind exchanges, equity infusions, and other creative, tax-efficient structures.
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Key Contacts
Zev D. Gewurz
Director, Boston
zgewurz@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 4086Douglas B. Rosner
Director, Boston
drosner@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 6517Related Insights
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