Thomas A. Hauser

Business and Finance, Real Estate Finance, Distressed Real Estate, Housing, Real Estate Development, Real Estate Leasing, REITs, Transactional Finance

Thomas A. Hauser is a partner in the Business and Finance Department and co-partner-in-charge of the Real Estate Finance Group. He is also a member of the Housing, Real Estate Development, Real Estate Leasing, REITs, and Transactional Finance Groups and the Distressed Real Estate Initiative, as well as the Financial Institutions Reform Task Force. Mr. Hauser has a general finance, real estate, and business transactions practice, which includes the representation of all sources of capital, including banks, insurance companies, private equity providers, pension funds and investment institutions, and borrowers in secured and unsecured financial transactions.

Mr. Hauser has experience in drafting, negotiating, and closing complex real estate and other asset-backed transactions, including sale-leaseback and synthetic lease transactions, participating/convertible debt, and mezzanine and bridge financing. Mr. Hauser represents developers and joint ventures in the acquisition and development of real estate, as well as both financial institutions and borrowers in loan work-outs and insolvency proceedings.

In addition to his finance practice, Mr. Hauser's work includes representing start-up and existing business entities. He has experience in general corporate governance matters, contract drafting and negotiation, and venture capital and private equity investments.

Professional Activities

American Bar Association

Maryland Bar Association

American College of Mortgage Attorneys

American College of Real Estate Lawyers

Johns Hopkins University Master's in Real Estate Program, Faculty

Maryland's continuing legal education programs, Instructor, Advanced Real Estate Finance

Recognition & Accomplishments

The Best Lawyers in America, real estate law, 2010

Publications

"Mandatory Retirement of State Judges and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act," 51 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 4, 1990

Speaking Engagements

"Troubled Debt and Workouts," Ballard Breakfast Briefing, June 4, 2009

Community Activities

Mr. Hauser participated in the Greater Baltimore Committee's Leadership program, which identifies and trains leaders in Greater Baltimore. 

Board Memberships

Baltimore City Bar Foundation

University of Pittsburgh School of Law (J.D. 1991, cum laude)
Head Note and Comment Editor, University of Pittsburgh Law Review

Dickinson College (B.A. 1988)

Maryland 1991

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania