Stark Langs Expert Witness
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Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

General Specialties:

Bankruptcy and Real Estate

Keywords/Search Terms:

Bankruptcy Plan Feasibility, Appropriate Interest Rate, Damages, Commercial Real Estate Loan Underwriting, Real Estate Acquisitions, CMBS, Loans, Representations and warranties, Due diligence, Finance, Real Estate

Education:

ScB - Applied Mathematics/Economics, Brown University; MBA - Real Estate Finance, Haas School, University of California - Berkeley

Years in Practice:

35

Number of Times Deposed/Testified in Last 4 Yrs:

4

Additional Information

I am an expert in commercial real estate finance with over 35 years of experience in the industry. I have worked in commercial real estate consulting, loan underwriting and acquisitions. I have underwritten in excess of $3 billion in commercial real estate loans and potential acquisitions. I have been retained as an expert on commercial real estate finance cases involving bankruptcy plan feasibility and appropriate interest rate, damages, loan underwriting, acquisitions and CMBS. In the past 4 years I have testified: - as a damages rebuttal expert at deposition and at a confidential Arbitration Hearing. Case involved alleged breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract with respect to an office building; - as a bankruptcy plan feasibility and appropriate interest rate expert at deposition. Case settled at the Confirmation Hearing. Collateral was an apartment property; - as a real estate finance expert at deposition. Case involved an allegedly fraudulent investment fund, representations made within offering materials and fees/expenses charged to the fund. Trial is pending. - I also was retained as a bankruptcy plan feasibility and appropriate interest rate expert on a student housing project. Case settled after submittal of my expert report.