Greg Cross is a partner at Venable LLP and the chair of its Bankruptcy and
Creditors' Rights Practice Group. Mr. Cross also leads Venable's Commercial
Real Estate Servicing practice and is a member of Venable's management
board.
During the past twenty years, Mr. Cross has established himself as a nationally
recognized leader in his practice areas. Mr. Cross was the coordinating counsel
for all secured lenders in the General Growth Properties case, counsel for the
secured creditors in the Extended Stay Hotels case and senior lenders' counsel
in the Stuyvesant Town litigation and restructuring. Other notable
representations include: confirming one of the only successful bankruptcy
restructurings of a financial services firm; representing the Governor and State of
Maryland in a bankruptcy that threatened the Preakness Stakes; and
restructuring the finances of Michael Jackson prior to his death. Mr. Cross was
recognized by The American Lawyer in 2010 as a "Dealmaker of the Year" for his
work in the GGP bankruptcy case, and under his leadership, the Bankruptcy
Practice Group was recognized by Law360 in 2009 as one of the nation's top five
bankruptcy practices.
Long before the recent economic downturn, Mr. Cross assembled a team of
more than 30 lawyers who focus the majority of their time on commercial real
estate workouts. For more than a decade now, Mr. Cross has advised some of
the nation's largest special servicers of CMBS assets on all aspects of
commercial real estate loan workouts and routinely develops training programs
for these clients. He speaks frequently on workouts and bankruptcies involving
commercial real estate and develops cutting edge approaches to structuring
workouts.