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 a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers where he serves as member of the Board of Governors and is a former chair of the Capital Markets and Real Estate Finance Committee.ย Barry is also a frequent speaker and author on topics related to commercial real estate finance.ย He is listed in the Best Lawyers in Americaยฉ (2006-2019), Kentucky Super Lawyersยฎ (2007-2016) and is AVยฎ Pre-eminent rated in Martindale-Hubbellยฎ.ย ย He is also listed in Chambers USAยฎ, Americaโs Leading Lawyers for Business (2003-2017), where he was recognized as โโฆ a brilliantly able attorney with a phenomenal legal mindโ and โHe is great to work with โ eminently practical and reasonable.โ
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
Chambers USA, Real Estate, 2003-2023
The Best Lawyers in Americaยฎ, 2006-2024, Lawyer of the Year,” 2019
Selected for inclusion in Kentucky Super Lawyersยฎ 2007-2023
AVยฎ Pre-eminent rated,ย Martindale-Hubbellยฎ
American College of Real Estate Lawyers, former Chair of the Capital Markets Committee and member of the Board of Governors
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
โStacking the Deck in Your Favor,โ American College of Real Estate Lawyers Spring 2012 Meeting
โCommercial Real Estate Financing,โ Kentucky Real Estate Law and Practice, Chapter 8,ย 4th Ed., 2012, published by the University of Kentucky College of Law
โRevived, Reviled, Rescued or Redeemed, The Return of CMBS,โ American College of Real Estate Lawyers Fall 2011 Meeting
โWhatโs New for CMBS 2.0 Loan Originations and Why?โ, The ACREL Papers, Fall 2011, published by the American College of Real Estate Lawyers