Practice
A concentrated practice for sophisticated capital.
Imperium LLP advises across the legal, regulatory, and commercial questions that arise as lending platforms, investment vehicles, and real estate operators scale and operate nationally.
01
Private and Secured Lending
We act for private lenders, institutional capital, mortgage investment corporations, and other capital providers across the lifecycle of a lending mandate.
- Origination & structuring
- Syndication & participation
- Documentation & security
- Platform & portfolio counsel
- Cross-jurisdictional execution
02
Financial Services & Regulatory
Regulatory fluency for the institutions and platforms that operate in the lending and capital markets — calibrated to the expectations of regulators across the country.
- Registration & licensing
- Conduct & supervision
- Compliance frameworks
- Governance & controls
- Regulator engagement
03
Fund Formation & Investment Structures
Structuring counsel for managers raising and deploying capital — built around mortgage, real estate, and credit strategies and the investors who underwrite them.
- MIC structures
- LP and pooled vehicles
- Offering documents
- Manager governance
- Securities considerations
04
Real Estate
Counsel on commercial real estate transactions across acquisition, disposition, development, leasing, and finance — for owners, developers, lenders, and operating platforms.
- Acquisitions & dispositions
- Development & joint ventures
- Commercial leasing
- Secured real estate finance
- Title & structuring
05
Realization & Enforcement
Decisive counsel on enforcement and recovery — including mortgage enforcement, foreclosure, receivership, and the strategic posture lenders take when capital is exposed.
- Mortgage enforcement
- Foreclosure & power of sale
- Receivership
- Workouts & restructuring
- Recovery strategy
06
Construction
Counsel for developers, contractors, and construction lenders on the legal questions that shape project execution and the protection of capital deployed against it.
- Construction lending
- Lien & trust considerations
- Project structuring
- Risk allocation
- Dispute mitigation
07
Corporate & Commercial
The corporate, commercial, and contractual infrastructure that supports a lending platform, an investment vehicle, or an operating business — built to scale alongside it.
- Corporate structuring
- Commercial agreements
- Shareholder & partnership matters
- Governance
- Strategic counsel
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