Michael McCarthy, partner at Strook/ Image credit: Gittings Photography
NEW YORK CITY—Michael McCarthy, a real estate lending lawyer, has joined Strook's national real estate practice group as a partner in New York.
McCarthy represents commercial lenders and borrowers in mortgage and mezzanine financings secured by commercial real estate. His representations also include real estate clients in loan workouts, restructurings, foreclosures, repurchase facilities and loan workouts.
He joins the firm from Dorsey & Whitney, where he was a partner. Previously, McCarthy was also a partner at Haynes & Boone, and worked as an associate at Paul Hastings and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
He received his JD, cum laude, from St. John's University School of Law in 2004, where he was a senior staff member of the American Bankruptcy Law Review and an editor of the New York Real Property Law Journal. McCarthy also received the Joseph Levine Real Property Award. He graduated with a BA from Emory University in 1997.
Michael's addition continues the firm's national real estate group's lateral growth in 2019. Commercial real estate lawyer Elsa Ben Shimon joined the firm in February, and trial advocate Jennifer Recine joined the real estate litigation practice in March. Other recent additions to the team include litigation partner Joshua Sohn, who joined the firm last August, and REIT/real estate capital markets partner Evan Hudson, who joined the firm last May.
Founded 140 years ago, Stroock has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, DC.
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Betsy Kim
Betsy Kim was the bureau chief, East Coast, and New York City reporter for Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. As a lawyer and journalist, Betsy has worked as the director of editorial and content for LexisNexis Lawyers.com, a TV/multi-media journalist for NBC and CBS affiliated TV stations in the Midwest, and an associate producer at Court TV.
