Brian J. Klein
Partner
f612.642.8324
brian.klein@maslon.com
3300 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Brian Klein is a partner in Maslon's Financial Services Group. He has extensive experience representing banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions in all forms of commercial financing transactions, including large loan syndications. These include the areas of general commercial lending, asset-based lending, mezzanine/second-lien loans, real estate term and construction financing, indenture trustee representation, project finance, equipment leasing, and chattel paper warehouse financing.
Brian has served as lead counsel on numerous transactions involving the structuring and documenting of syndicated secured loans, management contracts, and other commercial agreements with Indian tribes located in the United States and Canada. Brian's practice further includes significant representation of lenders in workouts and foreclosures, as well as creditor representation in bankruptcy; workout and bankruptcy representation of indenture trustees in defaulted public and private debt issuances; and representation of bank holding companies and owners of financial institutions in connection with a wide range of regulatory matters, including change in bank control applications. Brian is also a member of Maslon's Real Estate Group and has represented owners in all aspects of commercial real estate, including acquisition, leasing, and financing matters.
- Financial Services
- Commercial Loan Documentation
- Creditors' Rights in Bankruptcy
- Defaulted Loans and Workouts
- Indenture Trustee Representation
- Financial Institution Regulatory Matters
- Leasing and Equipment Finance
- Indian Gaming Finance and Development
- Real Estate
- Acquisitions, Sales and Exchanges
- Real Estate Financing
- University of North Dakota School of Law, Grand Forks, North Dakota,
1988
J.D.
Honors: With Distinction
Honors: Order of the Coif
Law Review: North Dakota Law Review, Member, 1986 - 1987; Case Comment Editor, 1987 - 1988 - University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota,
1985
B.B.A.
Honors: magna cum laude
Major: Banking and Finance
- Minnesota, 1988
- North Dakota, 1988
- U.S. Federal Courts, 1988
- American Bar Association - Member
- Minnesota State Bar Association - Member; Banking Law Section; Bankruptcy Law Section
- Hennepin County Bar Association - Member
- Association for Corporate Growth, Minnesota - Member; Board, 2011; Program Chair, 2011
- Turnaround Management Association - Member, 1999 - present; past President
- American Bankruptcy Institute - Member
- North Dakota Bar Association - Member
- A speaker at numerous continuing legal education and industry association programs related to lending and creditors rights issues, including the following:
- “Commercial Real Estate: Capital Markets Update and Alternatives for Real Estate in Business Combinations”, (panelist), Association for Corporate Growth, 2011
- “Boot Camp: Foreclosure and Loan Workout Procedures”, National Business Institute, 2011
- “Selling Your Collateral in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Section 363’s Faster, Cheaper Approach is at Risk”, (Moderator), Maslon Speaker Series, 2009
- “Successful Commercial Real Estate Financing Techniques”, National Business Institute, 2006
- “Troubled Loan Workouts under the New Bankruptcy Law”, Turnaround Management Association, 2006
- “Structuring the Commercial Loan in Minnesota”, National Business Institute, 2004
- “Commercial Loan and Commercial Real Estate Documentation”, Risk Management Association, 2003
- “Commercial Lending in Minnesota”, National Business Institute, 2002
- “Successful Commercial Real Estate Financing Techniques”, National Business Institute, 2002
- Recognized on Minnesota Super Lawyers® list, 2007 - 2008 (Minnesota Super Lawyers® is a designation given to only 5 percent of Minnesota attorneys each year.)
- AV Rating, Martindale-Hubbell (AV, BV, and CV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties, Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies)
