Sheri Chromow and Timothy Little, partners in the firm’s Real Estate Practice, authored a guide to real estate loan workouts. It reviews how the downturn affects workout decisions and provides a framework for lenders to assess what they have and achieve the best possible result. The guide was presented to the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. (“Picking Up the Pieces: A Lender’s Guide to Analysis of Workouts and Restructurings of Distressed Commercial Real Estate Loans,” November 2009)