BJ Finneran has been a civil litigator for over 30 years, litigating complex commercial disputes in the state and federal court systems. BJ represents multinational financial institutions, banks, and Fortune 500 companies, with a specialty in the areas of commercial litigation, real estate litigation and banking law. BJ effectively represents lenders and special servicers in connection with non-performing portfolio and commercial CMBS loans involving workouts, receiverships, class actions and judicial and non-judicial foreclosures. BJ also represents real estate clients in actions involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and business torts. He also advises mortgage seekers and financial institutions on contested residential foreclosure, creditor's rights, bankruptcy and mortgagor-initiated litigation. BJ utilizes his extensive courtroom and trial experience as an Assistant District Attorney and commercial trial attorney in successfully representing ZEK clients at trial, in evidentiary hearings involving multiple fact and expert witnesses, in arbitrations, in mediations, and in settlement conferences. BJ successfully represented a multi-national bank in an action challenging lender loan practices with significant ramifications. He also recently established a bank's standing to foreclose at trial, utilizing a lost note affidavit, and records from a prior servicer. BJ joined ZEK’s New York office in 2008.