Mark A. Silverman Member

Mark Silverman is a member in Dykema’s Chicago office practicing in the areas of business and financial services litigation. He is a member of the Firm's Financial Services Litigation Group and a co-team leader of the Firm’s Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities Special Servicer Group. Mark’s practice covers a wide range of complex commercial litigation, lender’s liability defense, banking, fraudulent conveyance and general fraud litigation, class action litigation, contract disputes, commercial foreclosures, commercial real estate transactions, post-judgment collections proceedings, and general business disputes. Mark represents banks, credit unions, large CMBS special servicers, purchasers of non-performing commercial real estate and C&I loans and investors in loan enforcement litigation and commercial foreclosure actions.

He regularly advises creditors such as insurance companies, banks, CMBS special servicers, landlords and specialty finance companies on a wide range of workout, creditor’s rights, and bankruptcy issues including negotiating forbearance agreements, handling asset-based and non-asset-based loan workouts, negotiating loan sales, liquidating collateral and facilitating settlement negotiations. Mark also regularly advises clients on litigation risk and bankruptcy implications of ABL, C&I and CRE loan transactions.

Mark also has experience helping Financial Technology (Fin Tech) companies navigate complex litigation relating to a broad range of issues, including the enforcement of Terms of Service Agreements, Merchant Agreements, and Uniform Commercial Code issues, among others.

Prior to joining Dykema, Mark was a judicial extern with the Honorable Arlander Keys in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Mark has also been recognized by Illinois Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in the field of Creditor Debtor Rights, Business Litigation and Bankruptcy since 2015.