James J. Tancredi

James J. Tancredi, Jerome Berkman | Day Pitney LLP

Editor: Would each of you tell us about your background and practice area? Berkman: I have been a commercial real estate and transactional attorney for more than 40 years in the Stamford, Connecticut office. My sub-specialty is commercial leasing. I have never represented lenders, only borrowers...

James J. Tancredi, Robert G. Siegel | Day Pitney LLP

Editor: Would you describe the formation of Day Pitney's Distressed Assets Practice Group? Siegel: We created the Distressed Assets Practice Group for the purpose of having a multi-disciplinary team to deal with issues that arise in connection with acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, and...

James J. Tancredi, Joshua W. Cohen | Day Pitney LLP

Distressed acquisitions are neither for the faint of heart nor the linear strategist. Opportunities in this arena are founded upon external and internal forces: business cycles, poor management, precipitous market changes, fair-weather lenders, undercapitalization and all too often, fraud. These...