Dechert LLP

Finance and Real Estate

Partner

David W. Forti, firm co-chair, and member of the firm's policy committee, focuses his practice in the areas of real estate finance and securitization. Mr. Forti represents various lenders, issuers, funds, b-piece buyers, master servicers and special servicers in transactions involving loan origination, mezzanine financing, loan sales and purchases, preferred equity transactions, CMBS securitization, post-closing modifications, work-outs and foreclosures.

Member, CRE Finance Council (CREFC); Member, Mortgage Bankers Association

University of Pittsburgh, B.A., 1992, cum laude; University of Pittsburgh, M.B.A., 1995; University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., 1995, magna cum laude, Editor of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review and the Journal of Law and Commerce, Order of the Coif