Brian E. Murray Email & Phone Number

For more than 20 years I have established myself as a valuable resource to numerous major clients in the financial services industry around New York City. A tenacious client advocate, I am dedicated to helping my banking clients reach their goals, and routinely collaborate with their executive leadership to guide that process. Known for my collegiality, I enjoy working with counsel for a borrower or a party on the other side in getting a transaction closed or an agreement signed.My areas of expertise include:• Commercial Loan Transactions• Commercial Real Estate Lending• Banking Regulation• Contract Drafting & Negotiation• Office Management• Mentoring & TrainingHighlights of my accomplishments include:• Successfully closing thousands of commercial loan transactions in amounts up to $25M and managing commercial loan pipelines to propel banks’ quarterly and annual goals. • Averting foreclosures or workouts for numerous banking clients by drafting and negotiating agreements enabling them to divest non-performing loans.• Collaborating with client bank officers to close dozens of lines of credit to law firms around the country, secured by firms’ anticipated income from personal injury cases.• Facilitating a New York State Banking Department application for the $10.5M purchase of Olympian Bank by Olympian Holdings, LLC (community investor group) following bankruptcy of the Bank’s majority shareholder and chairman of the board.• Partnering with in-house counsel for GreenPoint Bank to review and evaluate leasehold rights and obligations for their $600M purchase of 60 New York branches of Home Savings of America.• Teaming with client bank to develop and present a First Time Homebuyers Workshop in branches located in economically challenged neighborhoods throughout NYC.In addition to my combined legal and business prowess, I have a demonstrated ability to mentor and train others to become valuable financial services attorneys to their clients. I have also successfully managed a satellite office for my law firm post acquisition.Always on call, my clients know they can count on me to be responsive to their needs even when I am out of the office. I am an extremely pragmatic advisor and negotiator who constantly weighs risk and reward, and advise my clients accordingly to empower them to make educated business decisions.