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Recent court decisions in the state of MichiganWells Fargo Bank, NA v. Cherryland Mall, ____ N.W.2d _____, 2011 WL 6785393 (Mich.App. 2011) (Cherryland) in the Michigan intermediate appellate court and 51382 Gratiot Avenue Holdings Inc. v. Chesterfield Development Company, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142404 (E.D. Mi. Dec. 12, 2011) (Chesterfield) in a federal district courthave presented lenders, master and special servicers with new considerations in enforcing their rights and remedies, but confronted borrowers and guarantors in real estate finance markets with vastly different legal liability and unexpected economic consequences than had previously been understood or thought to have been documented in CMBS mortgage transactions
On August 11, 2009, in a long-anticipated ruling in the Chapter 11 case of General Growth Properties, Inc. (GGP), the court denied the motions to dismiss that had been brought on behalf of several of the property-level lenders
As the federal government and private markets make progress to quell economic recession and stimulate the engines of financial growth, recent headlines from the commercial real estate industry have focused on certain developments, such as the proposed changes in rating agency methodologies and the repeated false starts with the government’s TALF and PPIP programs
