| Joe Harrington, who chairs the Commercial Finance and Real Estate Transactions groups, joined the firm in 1971. Since then he has represented many institutional lenders, including savings banks and commercial banks and life insurance companies in structuring and closing construction, interim and permanent mortgage loans on office buildings and parks, apartment buildings, hotels, marinas, residential and commercial condominium projects, industrial complexes, shopping centers, golf courses, municipal parking facilities, affordable housing projects, mixed use developments and residential subdivisions. Many of these transactions have involved sophisticated financing techniques, such as sale and leaseback, leasehold, mezzanine and industrial bond financing.
Joe also has extensive experience representing institutional lenders in secured and unsecured corporate lending transactions, including, for example, revolving credit facilities, term loans, credit lines and letters of credit.
During his career, Joe has also represented private companies and individuals in the development, financing, leasing, sale or exchange of raw land, office buildings, apartment buildings and residential subdivisions.
With the assistance of members of our Business Litigation and Bankruptcy groups, Joe also advises clients on problem loans which may require restructure, workout and, if necessary, litigation, including mortgage foreclosures. |
- A member of the title advisory board of First American
Title Insurance Company of New York, Joe is a frequent lecturer
on commercial mortgage transactions. He is a former director
and officer of the Westchester County Bar Institute, has
served as president of the White Plains Bar Association
and as a co-chairman of the Law Office Management Committee
of the Westchester
County Bar Association.
- A past director of the Westchester Philharmonic, Joe has
served both as a trustee and counsel for the 52 Association
for the Handicapped, Inc., a not for profit organization
dedicated to aiding the physically challenged, which honored
him in 1994 with its Medal of Honor. In 1993, he was honored
by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. In 1999,
he and his wife, Katherine, were honored by the Dominican
Sisters Family Health Care Services.
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