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Barry A. Hines
Partner
Louisville, KY
Partner
Louisville, KY
Barry currently serves on the firm’s Executive Committee. He is the former Practice Group Leader of the Commercial Real Estate Lending and Servicing practice group. His practice is heavily concentrated in representing lenders and servicers in connection with commercial real estate transactions. His clients include CMBS lenders, life insurance companies, bridge lenders and mezzanine lenders that originate commercial mortgage loans nationwide, as well as master and special servicers.
Barry is the immediate past president of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, a member of the Board of Governors and is a former chair of the Capital Markets and Real Estate Finance Committee. Barry is also a frequent speaker and author on topics related to commercial real estate finance. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America© (2006-2023) and is AV® Pre-eminent rated in Martindale-Hubbell. He is also listed in Chambers USA®, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2003-2023), where he was recognized as “… a brilliantly able attorney with a phenomenal legal mind” and “He is great to work with – eminently practical and reasonable.”
University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, J.D., 1993, cum laude
Senior Editor, Law Review
Brandeis Honor Society
University of Kentucky, B.S., 1987
The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 Banking and Finance “Lawyer of the Year” in Louisville, KY
The Best Lawyers in America®, Banking and Finance, 2006-2026; Real Estate, 2006-2026
Included in The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers
Chambers USA, Real Estate, 2003-2025
AV® Pre-eminent rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), immediate past president, 2024
Mortgage Bankers Association of America
Executive Committee, Member
Finance Committee, Member
Budget/Audit Committee, former Member
“It’s All About the Money – Leases as Collateral,” ABA/American College of Real Estate Lawyers, March 2016
“Refinancing Tenant-In-Common Loans Utilizing a Delaware Statutory Trust,” the ACREL Papers, Fall 2014, published by the American College of Real Estate Lawyers
“Stacking the Deck in Your Favor,” American College of Real Estate Lawyers Spring 2012 Meeting
“Commercial Real Estate Financing,” Kentucky Real Estate Law and Practice, Chapter 8, 4th Ed., 2012, published by the University of Kentucky College of Law
“Revived, Reviled, Rescued or Redeemed, The Return of CMBS,” American College of Real Estate Lawyers Fall 2011 Meeting
“What’s New for CMBS 2.0 Loan Originations and Why?”, The ACREL Papers, Fall 2011, published by the American College of Real Estate Lawyers
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