Jerome A. Grossman

Senior Counsel

In the dynamic world of real estate finance law, having a wealth of experience counts. Jerome Grossman has represented clients in a broad range of general commercial and real estate finance matters for more than 30 years. He focuses his practice on Uniform Commercial Code secured transactions, real estate secured transactions and other financing transactions, including advising and assisting clients from the initiation stage through workouts and restructurings. Mr. Grossman brings an in-depth understanding of the commercial mortgage-backed securities market. For several years, he devoted his practice to representing borrowers in connection with real estate financings bound for that market. This work was done primarily on behalf of tenancies in common, Delaware statutory trusts and real estate investment trust subsidiaries. Mr. Grossman has also expanded his practice to include representing 501(c)(3) organizations in connection with bond financings of educational facilities, real estate acquisitions and low-income housing.

Publications

Co-author, CEB Action Guide “Enforcing Security Interests in Personal Property” (2001-2016 editions)
Co-author, Secured Transactions: A Context and Practice Casebook (Carolina Academic Press, 2015)
Co-author, “Common Qualifications to a Remedies Opinion in U.S. Commercial Loan Transactions,” 70 Bus.Law. 121 (2014)
Member, Drafting Committee, Opinions Committee, Business Law Section of the State Bar of California “Sample California Third-Party Legal Opinion for Venture Capital Financing Transactions,” 70 Bus.Law. 177 (2014)

Affiliations

Board of Governors and Past President, Financial Lawyers Conference
Uniform Commercial Code Committee, Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, 1995-2000, including 1999-2000, as Chair
Executive Committee, Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, 2001-2004 and 2010-2013
Steering Committee, Opinions Committee, Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, 2001-present, including 2007-2011, as Chair
Editorial Board of the Business Law Section’s publication, “Business Law News,” 2013-present, including 2014-2015, as Editor-in-Chief
Law Firm Representative to the Working Group on Legal Opinions (https://www.wglo.net/), 2007-present
Board of Regents, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, 2014-present (inducted into College 2010)

Presentations

Opinions of Counsel in Lending Transactions: Scope and Assumptions, Substantive Opinions, and Qualifications”, April 2017
Co-Presenter, “You Authorized WHAT?! A Cautionary Tale in Three Acts,” Financial Lawyers Conference, April 2015
Adjunct Professor, Western State College of Law at Argosy University, Spring 2015 (teaching a course in secured transactions)

Honors

Best Lawyers, Structured Finance, 2016 (first listed 2012)
Best Lawyers-U.S. News & World Report’s Best Lawyers in America, 2014-present
Named by Martindale-Hubbell, in San Diego Magazine, as a 2014 Top Lawyer
Order of the Coif
National Merit Scholar