Susan C. Tarnower
Direct 404.407.3651
Office 404.541.2900
Fax 404.541.2905
Two Alliance Center
3560 Lenox Road, Suite 1600
Atlanta, Georgia 30326
Professional Experience
Susan Tarnower is senior counsel in the firm's Real Estate and Commercial & Public Finance practice groups. She is also a member of the Distressed Real Estate team. Susan concentrates her practice in the area of commercial real estate. Susan has extensive experience in loan originations, including conduit and agency loans. Currently, she is focusing on special servicing and servicing issues and the resolution of non-performing and sub-performing loans. Susan's experience ranges from forbearances, work-outs, deeds-in-lieu, short sales and discounted pay-offs to receiverships, foreclosures, confirmation hearings and the pursuit of deficiencies against borrowers and guarantors. Susan also handles commercial leasing transactions.
Susan's industry background includes eight years as in-house counsel for GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corporation (previously Capmark Services, L.P.) and AMRESCO. Susan gained a wide-ranging knowledge of commercial and agency loan origination, securitization and servicing practices acting in this capacity. While Assistant General Counsel at the Atlanta Housing Authority, Susan expanded her experience in HUD lending and other regulatory matters.
Susan is admitted to practice in Georgia, Massachusetts and Texas. She is active in the MBA and with ACMA on committees addressing the impact of Dodd-Frank on lending practices.
Education
Northeastern University School of Law, J.D., 1992
Clemson University, M.ED., 1977
University of South Carolina, B.A., 1974
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