Practice Area Focus

  • Commercial lending
  • Commercial real estate, including leasing, acquisition, sales and financing
  • Creditors’ rights enforcement
  • Commercial transactions, including real estate and corporate finance

Professional and Civic Activities

  • American Bar Association
    • Business Law Section 2012-present
      • Banking Law Committee 2014-present
  • Oregon State Bar
    • President’s Membership Service Award (2019)
    • Legal Ethics Committee
      • Member 2019-present
    • Disciplinary Board -Region 5
      • Member 2019-present
    • Client Security Fund
      • Member,2006-2009
      • Chair,2009
    • Debtor-Creditor Section
      • Editorial Board, 2009-present

Admitted to Practice

  • Oregon, 1987
  • Colorado, 1994
  • Washington, 2000
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
  • Appeared in U.S. Bankruptcy Courts in California, Delaware, Oregon, Washington, D.C., and Washington

Education

  • J.D., Willamette University College of Law, 1986
    • Member, Willamette Law Review
  • B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1982

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Susan T. Alterman

With more than 30 years of experience working on commercial finance, real estate and creditors’ rights matters, Susan Alterman focuses her practice on commercial banking and complex real estate transactions. She assists a variety of financial institutions and real estate investors in structuring real estate and asset-based credit facilities, including loan documentation, underwriting considerations, and regulatory matters. Susan regularly represents banks and other financial institutions in structuring, negotiating and documenting a variety of lending transactions, including construction loans, bridge loans, term loans, mezzanine loans, revolving lines of credit, and secured and unsecured loan facilities. She also has a strong focus in the area of office, commercial, industrial and retail leasing. Susan handles distressed real estate assets and loans, including the acquisition and sale of bank-owned properties. She also counsels business clients on commercial loans and workouts.

In her comprehensive real estate practice, Susan has advised real estate investors in buying, selling, and leasing commercial, retail, industrial and agricultural properties. She has handled the purchase, sale and finance of auto dealerships in Oregon and Washington, negotiated and drafted multi-floor leases in core downtown office buildings in Portland and Seattle, and acts as outside counsel to one of the largest real property acquisition companies in the United States.

Susan is a member of the Oregon State Bar Legal Ethics Committee and has been appointed by the Oregon Supreme Court to the Oregon State Bar’s Disciplinary Board. She is the former chair of Oregon State Bar's Client Security Fund.

 

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