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Contact Information 500 Capitol Mall, 18th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 916.325.4565
Practice Focus Banking Financial Transactions & Workouts Real Estate
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Morgan T. Jones | Shareholder Professional ExperienceMorgan is a shareholder in McDonough’s Real Estate Practice Group. He specializes in banking, with a particular emphasis on financing transactions and workouts, and real estate. His practice also has included various corporate matters and domestic and international business transactions. Before joining McDonough in 1999, Morgan was Manager of the California Law Division, which he established in 1993, and Senior Corporate Counsel of U.S. Bancorp. Before that, he was a partner at Morrison & Foerster. Banking and FinanceLendingMorgan’s lending practice has included numerous large, complex transactions (including loans to $250,000,000 and workouts to $500,000,000), as well as extensive representation of lenders with high volume lending programs. Real Estate FinancingMorgan’s real property secured finance practice includes all types of commercial lending transactions, such as construction loans, combination loans, take-out and permanent loans, leasehold mortgage loans and credit enhancements, involving all types of security properties (such as multi-family and affordable housing projects, residential tract developments, raw land, shopping centers, office buildings, hotels and industrial properties). He has represented clients in complex multi-property and multi-state financing transactions, foreign currency denominated loans, various intercreditor relationships (including buy-sell and tri-party agreements, participations, and syndications), equity participation and convertible mortgage loans, whole loan sales, securitizations and conduit loans. Commercial FinanceMorgan’s commercial finance practice includes all types of personal property and mixed collateral secured lending transactions, as well as workouts and restructurings. Workouts, Restructurings and ForeclosuresMorgan’s practice includes representation of lenders in workouts, restructurings and enforcement of all types of real estate and commercial financings. OtherMorgan regularly represents issuers of letters of credit as credit enhancement for bond issuances. He has extensively counseled financial institutions on retail lending, regulatory compliance, operations and corporate matters. He also has represented mortgage bankers and others in various aspects of mortgage banking transactions (including commercial and consumer mortgage warehousing lines of credit and licensing issues). Real EstateMorgan’s real estate practice encompasses representation of investors, developers and corporate real estate users in all areas of commercial real estate, including acquisitions and dispositions of all types of commercial real property, exchanges, ground and occupancy leases, construction law, partnerships (including partnership workouts), residential tract and commercial development, and environmental law aspects of real estate transactions. Presentations/PublicationsAuthor,"California SupremeCourt Rules Pre-dispute Jury Trial Waivers Invalid," McDonough Banking & Finance Legal Bulletin, September 2005 Author, "Lenders Take Note: How to Recoup Attorney Fees After a Nonjudicial Foreclosure," McDonough Banking & Finance Legal Bulletin, June 2005 Author, "Secured Lenders: Protect Your Security Interests in Cash Settlements," McDonough Banking & Finance Legal Bulletin, May 2005 Co-Author, “Deeds of Trust,” CEB California Real Estate Finance Practice: Strategies and Forms, 2004, 2005 and 2006 Author, “Contractual Waivers of One-Action and Anti-Deficiency Protections by Debtors in Workouts,” 15CEB Real - Property Law Reporter 131, April 1992 Co-Author, “Risks Associated with REO,” Real Estate Workouts and Turnarounds, 1989 Co-Author, “Legal Aspects of Doing Business in China,” Legal Aspects of Doing Business in East Asia, D. Campbell ed. 1984 Speaker, subjects of real property secured lending, commercial lending and workouts and foreclosures. Leadership Positions/AffiliationsMember, State Bar of California – Real Property?Law Section and Business Law Section Honors/AwardsSelected for inclusion in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009 Northern California Super Lawyers® Fellow, American College of Mortgage Attorneys |
MHALaw Search Admitted to PracticeState Bar of California, 1981 EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles, School of Law J.D., 1981 UCLA Law Review UCLA International Law Journal University of California, Los Angeles M.A., 1975 University of California, Santa Barbara B.A., 1970 |
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