Steven A. Roach brings more than 30 years of commercial transaction and litigation experience in restructuring lending relationships and enforcing loan transactions. He applies this experience to provide a unique perspective as both a trial and transactional lawyer when representing and counselling the firm's financial institution clients.
Steve has represented lenders in a variety of lending structures, including syndications, financing leases, structured debt and equity financings, multi-jurisdictional and international transactions. He has assisted lenders with the liquidation of many different types of collateral that include operational assets, construction equipment, retail and wholesale inventory, real estate, intellectual property, aircraft and ships, with borrowers located in Michigan, throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, and elsewhere. Steve delivers results both out of court and when litigation is needed.
Steve utilizes pre- and post-judgment remedies in both state and federal courts when appropriate to preserve and enhance the value of collateral and to liquidate collateral. He has been actively involved with a large number and variety of receivership actions that have sought to preserve the value of assets, to wind down operating companies, to complete construction projects, and to liquidate both real and personal property. His receivership practice includes representation of both receivers and secured lenders.
His practice experience also includes jury trials, bench trials and arbitrations involving millions of dollars in damages, including lender liability, license and royalty contracts, real estate, construction disputes, Uniform Commercial Code issues, fraudulent transfers, probate issues, shareholder disputes, and, of course, the enforcement of loan agreements. He looks for immediate solutions and creative solutions, when cost effective and beneficial for his clients. In one particularly memorable case, Steve represented the Trustees of Detroit's historic Mariners' Church in a property dispute with the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, prevailing at both the trial and appellate levels.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Steven A. Roach
- Debt Limit to Qualify for Subchapter V and Chapter 13 Set to Revert This Summer - (Posted On Wednesday, March 13, 2024)
- Fifth Circuit Continues Bankruptcy Sale Protections After Supreme Court MOAC Opinion - (Posted On Friday, March 01, 2024)
- Protecting Your Investment from Costly Building Code Violations Following Galvan Ruling - (Posted On Thursday, August 10, 2023)
- Michigan Tax Foreclosures in Bankruptcy – An Auction and a Right to Claim Surplus Proceeds Insulates Against Challenge as a Fraudulent Transfer - (Posted On Friday, May 06, 2022)
- What Do You Do If a Debtor Defaults on Its Confirmed Bankruptcy Plan? - (Posted On Tuesday, February 15, 2022)
- Michigan Tax Foreclosures May Be Avoidable in Bankruptcy - (Posted On Friday, January 21, 2022)
- Michigan Court of Appeals Upholds Taxpayer Recovery of Excess Tax Foreclosure Proceeds, Bars Multi-County Class Actions - (Posted On Monday, January 10, 2022)
- SBA’s Guidance on Requests to Honor SBA’s Guaranty of PPP Loan - (Posted On Wednesday, July 21, 2021)
- Commitment Fees Might Constitute Interest Under Michigan Law - (Posted On Wednesday, June 16, 2021)
- Michigan Court of Appeals Holds That Development Agreement Obligations are Extinguished in Tax Foreclosure - (Posted On Wednesday, May 05, 2021)