Emily J. Charlesworth is an experienced finance, leasing and real estate attorney in Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie’s Business Transactions group. Emily primarily represents lenders in secured lending transactions, loan syndications and loan participations. Emily routinely advises lenders in connection with construction and development financing for mixed-use, commercial office, multifamily, and low-income housing tax credit projects, and in other asset based lending transactions. Additionally, Emily has extensive experience in complex commercial acquisitions and dispositions, drafting and negotiating commercial leases, and loan workouts, including foreclosures and deeds in lieu of foreclosure.
Throughout her legal career, Emily has acted as outside general counsel for a number of banks and other lenders, providing advice on general banking, regulatory, finance, real estate, secured transactions (Article 9) and collections matters. Emily was a credit analyst and commercial lender for two national banking institutions before becoming an attorney.