DENVER (July 21, 2008) - Holland & Hart LLP has formed a new Subprime Mortgage Practice Group in response to the recent instability of the financial markets arising from the subprime mortgage crisis. The group will respond to resulting legal challenges that may face the firm’s individual and business clients.
Holland & Hart’s Subprime Mortgage Group consists of an interdisciplinary team of attorneys with substantial hands-on experience counseling clients on business disputes, litigation, and government investigations relating to the subprime mortgage crisis. The group combines the experience of Holland & Hart’s securities litigation, commercial litigation, white collar, bankruptcy, financial, real estate and tax attorneys who represent a wide range of financial services and real estate clients, including lenders, creditors committees, investors, broker-dealers, and mortgage brokers.
“Stories continue to develop daily covering the threatened mortgage market,” said Wiley Mayne, manager of the firm’s Subprime Mortgage Group. “Holland & Hart has created this industry group to enhance client service through a comprehensive approach to legal issues from both near- and long-term market impacts.”
Mayne is a partner in the firm’s Denver office and a former managing partner of Holland & Hart. He has extensive experience in a variety of corporate, commercial and finance-related litigation.