Allen Katz

Savvy, business-centric guidance across all aspects of complex commercial litigation

Allen Katz is an experienced trial attorney with a particular focus on financial services litigation. He has been lead counsel in more than 1,000 trials to verdict, in state and federal courts on behalf of both individual and institutional clients. Allen handles complex evidentiary hearings, expert discovery, alternative dispute resolution, as well as consultations on litigation management systems to improve proficiency of client services and appropriate considerations in outsourcing versus in-house representation. The areas in which he advises clients include:

• Complex commercial litigation
• Creditor’s rights and real estate
• Insurance, transactional and financing origination disputes
• Taxation and loan servicing irregularities
• Interpretation of federal, state and municipal regulatory schemes
• Appellate matters

An innovative problem solver with a strong background in accounting, business and the regulatory landscape, Allen is committed to identifying legal strategies that fit practically into his clients’ broader business plan. Ultimately, his objective is to help them avoid facing the same legal challenge more than once, enabling their business to thrive.

• Advises on litigation involving counterclaims or non-routine matters, such as Quiet Title claims, alleged violations of consumer protection statutes, origination fraud, straw purchases, and state and federal claims brought against clients.
• Counsels on matters involving the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act (FCCPA), among others.
• Acts as arbitrator in alternative dispute proceedings on behalf of the National Arbitration Forum.

• Successfully represented a lender on appeal after trial court struck third-party purchasers pleadings without notice to them. Appellate court agreed that a party who purchases property after the recording of a lis pendens is a stranger to the case unless they move to intervene under the relevant statutory scheme within 30 days of the recording of the lis pendens.
• Successfully represented first mortgagee on appeal resulting in the first published opinion articulating that Florida’s safe harbor protection statute shields first mortgagees from liability for attorney’s fees, court and collection costs, as well as other charges incurred by associations.