Areas of Practice
Industries
Bar Admissions
- Illinois, 1994 (inactive)
- Michigan, 1997
Education
DePaul University, J.D.
- Dean's Scholar
Michigan State University, B.A.
- with honors
Adam M. Fishkind serves as the Office Managing Member of Dykema's Bloomfield Hills office, is the co-team leader of the Firm’s Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities Special Servicer Group, and is a member of the Real Estate Practice Group. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Fishkind was a real estate attorney with a privately held corporation in Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Fishkind represents all parties involved in real estate based transactions including investors, lenders, developers, owners, and operators. Mr. Fishkind advises clients in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including the acquisition, disposition, development, leasing, management, financing, and syndication of a wide variety of real estate projects such as office buildings, industrial properties, telecommunications facilities, single family and multi-family communities, regional shopping malls, strip shopping centers, parking facilities, hotels, golf courses, and planned developments.
Mr. Fishkind advises real estate based business entities with respect to all aspects of formation and operation, including structure of organization, acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations, dispositions, debt and equity financing, and real estate workouts.
Mr. Fishkind is also a member of the Firm's Financial Institutions Team and has significant experience representing national lending institutions and borrowers in the negotiation, structuring documentation and enforcement of commercial real estate acquisition loans, construction and land development loans and various other commercial lending transactions.
Seminars & Speeches
- Annexation Workshop, State Bar of Michigan, Real Property SectionJuly 2004
Publications
- April 3, 2020NextGen Financial Services Reporthttps://www.nextgenfinancialservicesreport.com/2020/04/ohio-issues-executive-order-requesting-relief-for-small-business-tenants-and-commercial-real-estate-borrowers/
- "Annexation: An Obscure Tool for Municipal Growth is Now a Weapon for Property Owners" (Co-author)ULI Detroit Insite
News
- Twenty-Three Other Dykema Lawyers Identified as Rising StarsSeptember 5, 2013
- November 7, 2012
Alerts
- June 27, 2019
- May 1, 2018
- June 16, 2016
- June 17, 2014
- April 12, 2013
- October 1, 2012
- May 15, 2012
- March 21, 2012
- March 5, 2012
- Implications of Springing Recourse Liability for Borrowers and GuarantorsJanuary 26, 2012
Press Releases
- September 18, 2020
- 18 Attorneys Earn “Lawyer of the Year” HonorsAugust 20, 2020
- Firm Ranked as One of the Top 10 in the Nation for Consumer Class ActionsApril 23, 2020
- August 22, 2019
- 18 Attorneys Earn “Lawyer of the Year” HonorsAugust 15, 2019
- April 25, 2019
- September 7, 2018
- 13 Attorneys Earn “Lawyer of the Year” HonorsAugust 15, 2018
- February 14, 2018
- September 5, 2017
- 10 Attorneys Receive “Lawyer of the Year” HonorsAugust 15, 2017
- November 14, 2016
- September 1, 2016
- 14 Attorneys Receive “Lawyer of the Year” HonorsAugust 15, 2016
- November 16, 2015
- September 8, 2015
- 12 Attorneys Receive “Lawyer of the Year” HonorsAugust 18, 2015
- November 20, 2014
- September 2, 2014
- Firm Receives 10 “Lawyer of the Year” HonorsAugust 18, 2014
- Nearly One in Four Dykema Practitioners Earn Distinction; Seven Merit “Lawyer of the Year” HonorsAugust 16, 2013
- More Than One in Four Dykema Practitioners Earn DistinctionAugust 23, 2012
- September 9, 2010
- April 5, 2010
Memberships & Involvement
- International Council of Shopping Centers
- Urban Land Institute
- State Bar of Michigan, Real Property Section
Awards & Recognition
Named a Leading Lawyer in Real Estate Law by Chambers USA, 2020
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Real Estate Law, 2013-Present. Copyright 2015 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC
Named a Michigan Leading Lawyer in the areas of Real Estate: Finance and Real Estate: Commercial Law by the Leading Lawyers Network, 2014-2017. Law Bulletin Publishing Company
Named a Leading Lawyer in Real Estate by Chambers USA, 2019
Recognized in Michigan Super Lawyers® for Real Estate: Business, Banking, Creditor Debtor Rights: Business, 2008, 2010-Present
Named a Top Lawyer by dbusiness Magazine for Real Estate Law, 2012-2013, 2015-2017